Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the pyramids.
Why it is true
The Great Pyramids were built around 2560 BC, while Cleopatra lived in the 1st century BC. The time difference between her and the pyramids is over two thousand years.
Source: British Museum
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