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Mammoths still roamed the Earth when the pyramids of Egypt were built.

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While the Great Pyramid of Giza was being erected about four thousand five hundred years ago, a small isolated population of woolly mammoths still survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic.

Source: Archaeology Digest

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