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240 km
Yes. Geologists have matched Stonehenge's bluestones to outcrops in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire, Wales, roughly 240 kilometers from the monument. People moved them there around 5,000 years ago.
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.