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10,000 B.C.
Director Roland Emmerich is usually a stickler for realism (see: sending a computer virus via Macintosh to aliens in Independence Day). So we hate to inform him that woolly mammoths were not, in fact, used to build pyramids. Heck, woolly mammoths weren't even found in the desert. They wouldn't need to be woolly if that were the case. And there weren't any pyramids in Egypt until 2,500 B.C or so.
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Two corrections:
1) I've seen the movie, so I know that the mammoths were
removed from their natural environment, the tundra, and moved to the desert to be used for manual labor. It was a part of the story line that was made pretty clear. Not only that, but the mammoths were clearly dying from the heat. Many had lost a lot of hair, and were clearly near death.
2) Nowhere in the movie was it established that the pyramids were at Giza. There are dozens of pyramids around the world that are many thousands of years old that have nothing to do with Egypt.
Actual mistakes:
1) Horses... 12,000 years ago? Nope, modern horses are about 6,000 years old.
2) Walking from a frozen tundra to a rainforest to a desert in a few days? Sorry, but that kind of radical change of climate doesn't exist on Earth.