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3,800 yrs
Yes. Built for the pharaoh Khufu around 2560 BC, the Great Pyramid stood about 146 meters tall and held the record for tallest human-made structure until Lincoln Cathedral's spire surpassed it around 1311.
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.