Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing (1969) than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza by roughly 500 years.
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- https://getsmalltalk.com/facts/2026/02/03/cleopatra-pyramids-timeline (getsmalltalk.com)
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