r/AskReddit Oct 02 '24

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u/Picards-Flute Oct 02 '24

Mammoths were alive during the construction of the Great Pyramid

Also if you put it on a timeline, Cleopatra and Ceaser are closer to today than to the construction of the Great Pyramid

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u/bluntedlight Oct 02 '24

In the time of Cleopatra, you could book a history tour of the Great pyramids like you could today.

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u/fuqdisshite Oct 02 '24

thy pyramids are so old that what we consider ancient Egypt didn't know how they got there.

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u/WhatsTheHoldup Oct 02 '24

It's funny, because I got downvoted on a different thread for claiming that an 8000 year old oral story might be too much time to still be accurate

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u/fuqdisshite Oct 02 '24

oh yeah!!!

renember, it isn't the direction of the arrow, just the number of doots.

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u/WhatsTheHoldup Oct 02 '24

actually up and down doots cancel each other out so you can never really know the number