It's like Doctor Who level time travel stuff. We look back at Cleopatra's time as ancient, and she'd look back at the pyramid builders kinda the same way. Both are just tiny dots on the Doctor's timeline – if he, you know, existed.

Yeah, and just think, today's tech will be tomorrow's pyramids. Full of cat pics instead of mummies, probably.

To put it in perspective for the history nerds here, Cleopatra is to the Great Pyramid as the first Apple computer (released in 1976) is to us today. And just think about how quaint that first Apple computer looks to us now!

I always raise an eyebrow when people say stuff like this cuz like yeah, mathematically true, still doesn't help my brain make sense of history. It's all just ridiculously long ago for me.

It's not just Cleopatra - most of what we think about as 'Ancient Egypt' was super old even by the time of the last pharaohs. Dynasties came and went for thousands of years before the Romans showed up. The Egypt of Cleopatra's time was as obsessed with the Old Kingdom as we are with her!

And yet, some ppl still believe the pyramids were made by aliens lol. Cleopatra's world was as baffled by the pyramids as we are. Just goes to show, humans have been awesome engineers for a looooong time. So much for the 'ancient aliens'.

I know right! When you toss around dates like BCE and stuff it all sounds like 'old' but dang, the difference is crazy. It's like the whole medieval period is closer to us than it was to the Romans.

Yeah it's super wild to think about. Makes you realize that 'ancient history' isn't this one huge block of time where everything happened sorta at once. Like, we've got dynasties and empires stretching so far apart, it's a trip.