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.
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?