A rolled-up piece of lead found in Germany was actually a 15th-century "curse tablet."
  • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    11 months ago

    I just love that modern archaeologists are literally digging through ancient human excrement to learn about how we used to be.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      11 months ago

      And I love that they find funny ways in which we’ve always been human, like the penis graffiti in Pompeii.

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        33·
        11 months ago

        Ancient graffiti is literally some of the funniest shit in all of recorded history.

        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.

        Lesbianus, you defecate and you write, ‘Hello, everyone!’

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

        Aufidius was here. Goodbye

        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.

        We have pissed in our beds. Host, I admit that we shouldn’t have done this. If you ask: Why? There was no potty

        Chie, I hope your haemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they ever have before

        O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in rui

        No matter when or where, we’re all the same dumb fucks deep down writing on the walls of the toilets.

    • PugJesus@kbin.social
      11·
      11 months ago

      Archeologists dig through ancient poop to study parasite loads of past populations.

      All data is valuable to someone’s specialization!