Sheril KirshenbaumCleopatra VII died a little over 2,000 years ago.
But the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed ~2560 BCE.
So you & I live closer in time to Cleopatra VII than she did to the Great Pyramid.
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@Sheril also T-rex lived closer to us than to dinosaurs alive during the Jurassic.
sdem21 🏴 🇨🇾 🇪🇺 🇺🇦@Sheril Well, when you put it that way. 🙂
Katy Swain@Sheril "All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got." - Cleopatra, via #MorecambeAndWise
Morecombe & Wise with Glenda Jackson: COMPLETE "Antony & Cleopatra"
Noah Cook@Sheril I wonder if Cleopatra ever viewed the ruins of Pi-Ramesses, and mentioned to an advisor that they lived closer to Ramesses-II than he did to the Great Pyramid?
Of course, I have no idea how Egyptians would have viewed their own historiography, whether it would have had the same meaning to them as it does to us?
Peter Christensen@Sheril I just finished translating a museum exhibition on Ancient Egypt that’s about to open, and the more I learn about it, the more my mind kind of slowly blows. Though I guess a civilization that lasts over 3,000 years is bound to come up with a few innovations. 🤯
Sandra Hoenle (she/her) 🇨🇦@Sheril That‘s an amazing perspective. Thanks.
Roadskater, Ph.D.@Sheril Sometimes I feel this way in reference to WW2. Which I was born 18 years after it ended. Now I am more than 3*18 years old.
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MikeZilla Minus One@Sheril boy, this is a real kick in the asp