What if we told you that while Ancient Egyptians were finishing the Great Pyramid, woolly mammoths were still roaming the Earth? Get ready to have your mind blown as we explore history’s most unexpected overlap in this episode of BrainBlast!

In this episode, your resident "science goofball" Jordan and co-host Alex dive into a timeline-shattering fact that bridges the gap between the Ice Age and Ancient Egypt. While it’s easy to picture woolly mammoths as ancient relics of a million years ago, Jordan reveals they actually survived on Wrangell Island until roughly 1650 BC.

That means these majestic, hairy giants were still grazing while Pharaohs were admiring the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was completed nearly a millennium earlier in 2560 BC. Join us as we discuss:

• How the melting ice caps isolated the last mammoths in the Arctic Ocean.
• The incredible scale of limestone blocks and labor that built the pyramids in the desert heat.
• Why history is full of wild overlaps that prove time is much weirder than we think.

Keywords: Woolly Mammoths, Ancient Egypt, Great Pyramid of Giza, Wrangell Island, Ice Age, BrainBlast Podcast, Science History.

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