History feed
5'7"
Napoleon was about 1.69 meters tall, roughly 5 feet 7 inches in modern British or American units. That was around average for a Frenchman of his era, rather than the exceptionally tiny figure of popular caricature.
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.