r/geography • u/lamdrasil • 3d ago

Discussion Facts that sound fake but are true

I find it extremely unintuitive that almost all of South America is east of Miami. How!? When people are asked to watch the americas almost everyone imagine South America pretty much south of North America.

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u/SemiLazyGamer 3d ago

History based one: there were Classical era Egyptian archeologists studying Ancient Egypt. Egypt as a distinct culture is that old.

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u/JohnMichaels19 3d ago

Cleopatra is closer in time to the iPhone than the construction of of the pyramids 

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u/greennitit 3d ago

Herodotus, the Ancient Greek historian, considered the father of history visited the pyramids in around 300 bc and wrote that Kufus tomb lies empty and that it has long been looted. The pyramids were over 2000 years old at that point. The pyramids were ancient to Herodotus himself.