The Great Pyramid of Giza was finished around 4,500 years ago. A small population of mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until about 4,000 years ago.
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An island refuge
Rising seas cut Wrangel Island off from the mainland, and its mammoths outlived the rest by thousands of years.
Cleopatra is closer to us
Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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- Timelines overlap. We picture "prehistoric" and "ancient" as separate eras. In reality they ran side by side in different places.
- Why they vanished. Small, isolated populations lose genetic diversity, making them fragile when something changes.
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Which came first?
The Great Pyramid. The pyramid is roughly 500 years older than the last mammoths.
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