History
Were woolly mammoths alive when the pyramids were built?
Last mammoths: ~1700 BC
Were woolly mammoths alive when the pyramids were built?
Yes. The last woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island in the Arctic survived until approximately 1700 BC — around 900 years after the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed (~2560 BC). The woolly mammoth was not prehistoric in any meaningful sense — it is our contemporary, separated only by a few millennia.