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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.
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.
1096
Teaching existed at Oxford by 1096, centuries before the Aztec Empire emerged in 1428. Even Tenochtitlan, the city that became the empire's leading capital, was founded later than Oxford's earliest recorded teaching.