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356 BCE · PELLA, ANCIENT MACEDON

Alexander the Great
arrived here.

The Great Pyramid was already more than 2,000 years old when Alexander was born. Where do you fit on that same timeline?

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Alexander’s historical Human Number

47,223,124,916Modelled estimate of human births by around 356 BCE.
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8,000 BCE–1900 CE

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Alexander’s birth year and place: Getty Research Institute. Great Pyramid dating: Harvard’s Digital Giza.