Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Why it is true
The Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC. Cleopatra lived between 69 and 30 BC, about 2,500 years later. The first iPhone was launched in 2007, only 2,037 years after Cleopatras death. The time gap between her and us is smaller than the one separating her from the pyramids.
Source: Smithsonian
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