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[-] salvaria 153 points 3 months ago

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".

[-] bangsnooter@lemmy.zip 77 points 3 months ago

Souls players have been around for centuries.

Try finger but hole

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

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

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Finally, we'll know where the word came from!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Especially the trilobytes

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Attaboy Tholfir

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Kolbein must've been so proud.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 91 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

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@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 76 points 3 months ago

I would watch Ancient Shitposting religiously.

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Milo Rossi should make a channel

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

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

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago

The not so famous pyramid of Packanghamen.

[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 50 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Do you remember any of the older names?

[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

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

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Cool, thanks for sharing!!

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Galluspetat

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 months ago

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."

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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".

[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hmm. Interesting, indeed. Now please excuse me while I, once again, sacrifice my own bodily fluids on the modern-age altar of fertility which has been optimized over ages and ages into the convenient shape of a... sock.

[-] portuga@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

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

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] portuga@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

We’ve evolved technologically, not psychologically

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Same moneys, fancier tools.

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months 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.

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

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

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 45 points 3 months ago

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

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 11 points 3 months ago

these are the greatest receipts I could ever dream of.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 months ago

Try finger but hole

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Vikings (and Varangians) loved write silly things everywhere.

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 3 months ago

Those who forget the past, are condemed to repeat it.

Let's just forget everything, ok?

[-] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I learned in my scandinavian class in college that they dug up a nordic tavern ruin, and inside found a stick with carved runes on it. When translated, it said something to the effect of "HELGA SAYS COME HOME RIGHT NOW."

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago

I guess this means Norsemen is more historically accurate than Vikings

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yep, same graffiti means people haven't changed at all. It's so obvious!

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

would sub c/ancient_shitposting so hard

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