Tutankhamun lived almost exactly halfway between the Great Pyramid and Cleopatra: he died about 1,240 years after the pyramid was built and about 1,290 years before Cleopatra.
The events
- Great Pyramid of Gizac. 2560 BC · Giza. The Great Pyramid, built for Pharaoh Khufu at Giza, rose about 146 metres high. It remained the tallest human-made structure for nearly four millennia and is the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World.
- Death of Cleopatra30 BC · Alexandria. After the defeat at Actium and Mark Antony's suicide, the last Ptolemaic queen took her own life as Octavian entered Alexandria. Egypt became a Roman province, ending the age of the Hellenistic kingdoms.
26th century BC · 14th century BC · 1st century BC
More amazing facts
- 2560 BC · 2000 BC When the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island — the last of them died out only around 2000 BC.
- 2560 BC · 31 BC · 1969 Cleopatra (born 69 BC) lived closer in time to the Moon landing (about 2,040 years) than to the building of the Great Pyramid (about 2,490 years).
- 2560 BC The oldest inscribed papyrus is a logbook of stone deliveries for the Great Pyramid.
- 2560 BC The Great Pyramid was not built by slaves.
- 2560 BC · 196 BC The Rosetta Stone is closer in time to us than to the Great Pyramid.
- 2560 BC · 1798 "Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you" — Napoleon actually undersold it. In 1798 the Great Pyramid was already about 4,360 years old: nearly 44 centuries.