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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Why it is true

The Great Pyramid was built around twenty-five hundred BC, while Cleopatra ruled in the first century BC, placing her chronologically closer to 1969 than to the pyramid's construction.

Source: Ancient History

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