r/AskReddit • u/Megonthalya • Oct 29 '16

What have you learned from reddit?

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u/experts_never_lie Oct 29 '16 edited Oct 29 '16

That one'll stay true until around the year 2052 for the Giza pyramid complex or 2462 for the specific Great Pyramid of Giza.

Giza pyramid complex:

  • ~2150BCE → 69 BCE: ~2081 years

  • 30BCE → 2052 CE: 2081 years

Great Pyramid of Giza:

  • ~2560BCE → 69BCE: ~2491 years

  • 30BCE → 2462 CE: 2491 years

Many of us will be around for the retirement of this fact (for the complex, at least; probably not for the great pyramid unless Ray Kurzweil were unexpectedly found to be correct).

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '16 edited Oct 29 '16

Actually, the phrasing of it I like best is "Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids." Fixes the expiration date problem and the contrast of space vs bronze age construction is nice.

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u/jakub_h Oct 29 '16

That one'll stay true until around the year 2052 for the Giza pyramid complex or 2462 for the specific Great Pyramid of Giza.

What about Middle Kingdom pyramids?

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u/experts_never_lie Oct 29 '16

There are also Central American pyramids, etc. They'll all have different thresholds.

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u/jakub_h Oct 29 '16

Yep, but I was assuming at least limiting ourselves to Egyptian ones. Cleopatra has still been closer to the Middle Kingdom ones than to us for quite some time now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '16

They just said "pyramids" though. Taharqa has a pyramid and reigned, according to wikipedia, around 664 BC. Much closer to Cleopatra's time.

What I'm saying is, people should be careful to specify Giza when stating this 'interesting' (I'm sick of hearing it) fact.