Last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until ~1650 BC, nearly 1,000 years after the Great Pyramid. Wrangel Island is a small, remote, mountainous Arctic island about 150 km across off the Siberian coast The island was completely cut off from humanity by extreme remoteness and cold Low annual temperatures on Wrangel Island are around -22°F, with brief summer highs around 35°F
Imagine a remote Arctic island where woolly mammoths survived until roughly 1650 BC. Wrangel Island, a frozen mountainous speck off Siberia roughly 150 km across, sheltered the last mammoths on Earth for thousands of years after their relatives died out elsewhere. By the time they finally vanished, the Great Pyramid had already stood for nearly a millennium and Ancient Egypt was, well, ancient.
Key Facts
- Wrangel Island is a small, remote, mountainous Arctic island about 150 km across off the Siberian coast
- The island was completely cut off from humanity by extreme remoteness and cold
- Low annual temperatures on Wrangel Island are around -22°F, with brief summer highs around 35°F
- The proposed date of the completion of the Great Pyramid is around 2600 BC
- Paleontological evidence indicates the last woolly mammoths of Wrangel Island existed until around 1650 BC
- Ancient Egypt was already ancient by the time the Wrangel Island mammoths finally disappeared
- If the Wrangel Island mammoths had survived a few hundred years longer, they would have lived alongside the Trojan War and the collapse of Bronze Age civilization
- Wrangel Island mammoths survived thousands of years beyond mammoths anywhere else in the world
Source: Humans never found the Last Mammoths on this frozen Siberian island... by Luke Caverns