00:00Cleopatra lived closer in time to your phone than to the pyramids.
00:04The Great Pyramid of Giza was finished around 2,560 BC.
00:09Cleopatra died in 30 BC.
00:11That is more than 2,500 years later.
00:14To put it another way, the time between the pyramids and Cleopatra
00:18is longer than the time between Cleopatra and Aix.
00:22She spoke Greek, not Egyptian.
00:24She lived in a world of great libraries and lighthouses,
00:27while the pyramids were already ancient ruins.
00:30To her, the pyramids were older than the Roman Empire is to us.
00:34Here is another mind-bender.
00:36Wooly mammoths were still walking the earth when the pyramids were being built.
00:40And Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
00:44We picture history as a straight line, but it is more like a crowded room,
00:48where the ancient and the modern overlap in ways that feel impossible.
00:53The past is not as far away as your brain wants it to be.
00:56So tell me, which historical fact completely rewired your brain?
01:01Drop it in the comments.
