Cleopatra: Closer to iPhones than Pyramids

Everything you think you know about ancient Egypt is wrong. And this fact might break your brain.

When you picture Cleopatra, you imagine pyramids, pharaohs, ancient rituals,

and hieroglyphics. But the truth? Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than

to the construction of the pyramids. The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed around 2500 BC.

Cleopatra was born in 69 BC. By the time she opened her eyes to the world,

the pyramids were already 2,400 years old, as ancient to her as ancient can get.

And here's the crazy part. From Cleopatra to us? Only about 2,000

years. She didn't see the Egypt of colossal construction projects. She saw an Egypt