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The Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls include writings in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Hebrew is the dominant language, but treating the entire collection as Hebrew erases an important part of its historical variety.
2,500
Cleopatra lived closer to the 1969 Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid. The pyramid was already about 2,500 years old when she was born.
4,000
A surviving population of woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island while Egyptians were building the Great Pyramid. These Arctic animals persisted until about 4,000 years ago, long after most mainland populations disappeared.