✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Great Pyramid: c. 2560 BC; Cleopatra: 69–30 BC; First iPhone: 2007 — about 2,500 years between the first two, 2,075 years between the last two (counting from birth).
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who and what
- Great Pyramid of Gizac. 2560 BC · Giza. The world's tallest structure for nearly four millennia
- Cleopatra69 BC–30 BC · last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt
- Apple unveils the iPhone2007 · San Francisco. Touchscreen and web in a pocket — the smartphone age
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