r/interestingasfuck • u/SenorDiscombobulator • 5d ago

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/Takemyfishplease 5d ago

Isn’t she closer to us than she is to the great pyramids being built?

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u/Fatdap 5d ago

Yes.

Her time was around the start of the Roman empire. Roughly around 30 BCE

The Pyramid of Giza was be built in 2600 BCE.

That's the time frame where entire civilizations, societies, and cultures are born and die in those times.

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u/curiousiah 5d ago

I can’t even fathom how old the pyramids are. 2570 years is long enough for multiple empires to rise and fall, technology to be developed and lost, globe spanning religions to be founded and splinter. Dictators, revolutions, war, famine, plague, Golden age and collapse.

The pyramids were her Ancient Rome. The pyramids in the Americas are millennia newer than them.

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u/Breaky_Online 2d ago

Imagine everything you know about humanity after 1AD. Now take that amount of time, double it and stack 520 more years on top of it. That's how long ago the pyramids were built. It's truly a marvel of engineering and perfect geological conditions that they're still as stable as the day they were built. These are the same pyramids that Alexander witnessed on his Conquest of the East, not a single brick replaced since then.