Historical Time Warps

Historical facts that will distort your perception of time. The cowboy era and the Victorian

era took place at the same time. Machu Picchu and the Sistine Chapel

were built just 33 years apart. Abraham Lincoln and the samurai era took place at

the same time. Woolly mammoths roamed when the great pyramids were under construction.

Cleopatra was alive closer to us than to pyramids' construction. The city of

London is 1500 years older than Genghis Khan. The Ottoman Empire existed when Walt

Disney released his first cartoons. The Eastern Roman Empire fell just before Columbus discovered

the Americas. Saturn's rings did not exist when the stegosaurus roamed the Earth.