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As I find always interesting, we are as far to the Romans in history as the Romans were from the construction of the pyramids.

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Cleopatra was closer to the moon landings them to the building of the pyramids!

She can't have been that far away, didn't she live in Egypt? I'm fairly sure the moon is always further away

I'm pretty sure the poster above you is referring to the differences between the number of letters in the following words: "CLEOPATRA" is closer to "MOON LANDING" than "THE BUILDING OF THE PYRAMIDS".

Actually its the distance in time.

I think the question was sarcastic

As was his answer.

As was this explanation

Lived from 69 to 30 BC according to Wikipedia… definitely closer to th moon landing .. by almost a thousand years..

I will read this comment as being intentionally, and gloriously, deadpan comedy.

What if you compare the coordinates in the galactic frame at their respective times?

I know people generally consider "Roman history" to be around the time of Julius Caesar, but the empire itself spanned over 1000 years.

What people usually refer to the Roman Empire is the unified empire which was only around for 4 centuries. Heck pretty much past 286 AD is when the Roman Empire is no longer the classical Roman Empire. (Rome was no longer the capital, eastern / western split begins).

Even a bit earlier if you want to consider the shift to the monotheism (not yet Christianity) of Sol as the line of demarcation.

If you want to be utterly pedantic then yes the Eastern Roman Empire survived until 1453 aka the Fall of Constantinople. So more like 1500 years in total.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.h...

Provides a nice representation of such events. Very insightful!

Roman Empire ended around 1450, so…

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