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Medieval 'curse tablet' summoning Satan discovered at the bottom of a latrine in Germany (www.livescience.com)
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[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You missed my personal favorite: a viking burial mound on whose walls, some seven or eight feet up, is written, "Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up."

Viking men averaged out at 5'7" (173cm), so he must have been lifted by someone.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Ancient graffiti is glorious.

Almost as endearing as ancient pet mausoleums.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

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

All data is valuable to someone's specialization!

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We use it to fuel our power grids too! At a certain point everything just becomes biomass πŸ˜…

[–] muse@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ancient satan poop tablets are powering the electric grid!?

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Wait till you hear what we do with horseshoe crabs