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1876
No horned helmets have been found from the Viking Age. The horned Viking image was popularised largely by costume designs for Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, staged in 1876.
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.