#14: Modern Day Woman
Here’s another strange thing about the way we perceive time and history. We tend to think that everything that happened way back in B.C. times is all part of the same thing, even though we know that we can barely remember things that happened 20 years ago. Everything then is “Ancient,” whereas we’re “Modern.”
So it’s pretty astounding when we find out that something we consider to be ancient can be closer to our times than to some other ancient thing. Most of us probably thought Cleopatra was around when the Pyramids were built, but it turns out that they were already ancient even to her.