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The Great Pyramid held a record for 3,800 years

At 146 metres, the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure humans built until Lincoln Cathedral overtook it in the 1300s.

The Great Pyramid was already 2,500 years old in Cleopatra's lifetime. She lived only about 2,000 years before Apollo 11.

Teaching began at Oxford around 1096. Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire, was founded in 1325 — over two centuries later.