✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Great Pyramid: c. 2560 BC; Tutankhamun: c. 1341–1323 BC; Alexander the Great: 356–323 BC — about 1,200 years between the first two, about 990 years between the last two (counting from birth).
Tutankhamun lived closer in time to Alexander the Great 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
- Tutankhamun1341 BC–1323 BC · Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh
- Alexander the Great356 BC–323 BC · king of Macedon and conqueror
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