When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.

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    more time passed between the building of the great pyramid and cleopatra, than between cleopatra and today

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      Another example of things lasting far longer than people think is more years passed between the Stegosaurus and the T Rex than the T Rex to today.

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      Ancient Egyptians had higher education programs, almost like us and universities. One “major” was the equivalent to what would be archeology. As in, there were ancient egyptologists who studied an even more ancient Egypt.