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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I always liked how archaeologists would dig up ancient statues of big-breasted and big-butted women and call them evidence of a "cult of fertility". I guess that sounds better than "porn".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Man has felt the need to leave his mark on this world since the very beginning. Not likely to ever change

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Nowadays though, we (or some of us at least) wish to leave less of a mark. Ecological footprint, climate change and so on.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I visited a 17,000 year old cave painting site in France, and the whole walk into the cave there are modern day graffiti signatures like "Bob, 1992" etc. but then you start to notice that the years go back further and further...1827...1761...1597. Then you get to the old cave art and it kind of feels like a continuation of the same shit, just some people leaving their scribbles on a rock like they have been probably since they discovered how to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Do you remember any of the older names?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know, can you make them out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Cool, thanks for sharing!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Galluspetat

[–] [email protected] 69 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I would unironically watch something called 'Ancient Shitposting' that focused on old graffiti and pisstakes. It would still be more relevant to history than most of what is on channels with History in the name these days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I want a spinoff focusing on animals fucking with humans in ancient times, like paw prints in bricks or on documents. Must be a treasure trove of hilarious antics throughout the times

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I know a number of Roman and medieval European tiles have been found. I'm sure there's more around the world because cats gonna cat.

[–] vaultdweller013 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The only exception would be in places like the Americas where they didnt have any domestic cats, though who knows maybe someone tried domesticating mountain lions which are in the same family as housecats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Well, there's more than just cats, but true. Wolves, dogs, monkeys, and just about anything else could be traipsing about.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I had a book of graffiti, one of them was described as an arrow written up a wall next to a urinal up to the ceiling where a message read "by the time you've read this message, you have pissed on your shoes."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

My favorite was "a sucking chest wound is Nature's Way of telling you you've been in a firefight".

[–] [email protected] 131 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I liked the story about the "very high" runes and so I found a source. Apparently, the writing was "Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

Kolbein must've been so proud.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Souls players have been around for centuries.

Try finger but hole

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Best use of a time machine ever, carve that in ancient Norse runes for future people to find.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, go further back and carve next to all kinds of fossils the word "dog"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Especially the trilobytes

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Thing is, unless we first found it way later, people would just think they're referencing the runes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

"Nooo, we were trying to spread the meme, not destroy it!"

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago

Attaboy Tholfir

[–] [email protected] 73 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I would watch Ancient Shitposting religiously.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Too bad it would never happen on the history channel, it involves history.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

They can always claim it's aliens. And then translate it all, with the people's names, and keep claiming it's aliens.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There's a pyramid with hieroglyphics carved onto the side that roughly translate to "This End Up"

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

People think humanity is so much more evolved now but it has been actually the same shit from thousands ago or whenever recorded history goes back.

Also: portuga was here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Our ancestors' brains went from chimpanzee-sized to modern-sized (actually slightly bigger than today) between two million and one million years ago, and more importantly the language-governing areas increased in size during that stretch. So human beings a million years ago were very much like us today, just without the advanced technology.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Millions of years, likely. The whole reason we’re successful is because our pre-human ancestors were empathetic and cooperative enough to build societies.

We see those same traits in many other primates, and they’re not something it makes sense to evolve, lose, and evolve again. Those traits predate us.

Language almost certainly predates us, since we see it not only in other primates, but in non-primate species, too. And based on the humour we see in many animals, you can bet we were making dick jokes nearly out of the gate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Societies weren't built on empathy, they were built on security. Not just physical security but food as well. No society in history was built on empathy, ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What the hell do you think sharing food is all about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Sharing food is keeping alliances, is security.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Always has been. This is where the whole "Dark Ages" idea comes from, IIRC: people further on in time wanting to separate themselves as special and more advanced.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

We’ve evolved technologically, not psychologically

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Same moneys, fancier tools.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

Try finger but hole

[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They really understate Mozart. My favourite scatalogical composition of his is "Lick My Ass Right Well and Clean" where he compares his ass to nicely buttered roast meat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_sch%C3%B6n_sauber

Super pretty choir piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNePP0DX1A

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Probably not "Marcus is gay" since they didn't have a similar idea of sexuality, it being more or less a free-for-all.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.

Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

I have buggered men

Secundus likes to screw boys.

If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.

The one who buggers a fire burns his penis

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

these are the greatest receipts I could ever dream of.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Yo Imma need Attice's digits, and a bag of sestertii

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh my sweet summer child...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 hours ago

Bad use of the meme.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Commit to the bit. The bit is eternal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

I guess this means Norsemen is more historically accurate than Vikings

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