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Pyramids vs mammoths: they lived at the same time

Egypt's Giza pyramids from 2560 BC still stood when Wrangel mammoths lived until 1700 BC in the Arctic.

Pyramids vs mammoths: they lived at the same time

Giza 2560 BC while mammoths walked

Around 2560 BC about 20000 workers raised the 147 meter Great Pyramid with 2.3 million blocks averaging 2.5 tons, while mammoth herds still grazed Siberia and Alaska.

The last mainland mammoths died about 10000 years ago, but 300 dwarf mammoths survived on 7600 square kilometer Wrangel Island until about 1700 BC, some 860 years after the pyramid.

Oxford older than Aztecs and deep time tricks

Oxford teaching began in 1096, about 230 years before the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan rose in 1325 with 200000 people, another timeline shock like pyramids and mammoths together.

Cleopatra lived in 30 BC, closer to the 1969 Moon landing 1999 years later than to the pyramids 2530 years earlier, proving 4500 years of history compress strangely in memory.

  • Giza Great Pyramid 147 meters 2560 BC
  • Wrangel mammoths until 1700 BC
  • 860 years overlap after pyramid built
  • Oxford 1096 older than Aztecs 1325
  • Cleopatra 30 BC near Moon 1969
Topics:pyramids vs mammothsGiza Wrangelsame time history
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