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1974
Local farmers digging a well near Xi'an uncovered evidence of the Terracotta Army in 1974. The discovery led archaeologists to a vast group of clay soldiers associated with the tomb complex of China's first emperor.
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.