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Istanbul straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosporus — a narrow strait linking the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
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Next evidence →70 BCECleopatra, born about 70 BCE, lived hundreds of years closer in time to the present than to the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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