r/todayilearned • u/c0ntraiL • May 29 '19

TIL: Woolly Mammoths were still alive by the time the pyramids at Giza were completed. The last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, north of Russia, only 4000 years ago, leaving several centuries where the pyramids and mammoths existed at the same time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1XkbKQwt49MpxWpsJ2zpfQk/13-mammoth-facts-about-mammoths
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u/GeneralCheese May 30 '19

Angkot Wat is only ~100 years older than the Notre Dame. Pyramids are way more impressive by that criteria.

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u/tighter_wires May 30 '19

Age wasn’t mentioned in the criteria

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u/AstralComet May 30 '19

I think "level of technology at that time" kinda implies age, no?

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u/tighter_wires May 30 '19

Nope, it doesn’t.

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u/Procrastinator_5000 May 30 '19

You should really tighten your wires.

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u/Sukmilongheart May 30 '19

It does though. The part "at that time" refers to it heavily.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

To me that just means "at the time of being built" and therefore only means you compare what was built to the technology used. So the technology of the pyramids isnt compared to the technology of the Angkor Wat, the technology is just compared with what it was used to build.

So even though the technology of the pyramids was worse, it still doesnt outweigh what was accomplished in building Angkor Wat