CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 11 months agoMedieval 'curse tablet' summoning Satan discovered at the bottom of a latrine in Germanywww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1135cross-posted to: archaeology@mander.xyz
arrow-up1135external-linkMedieval 'curse tablet' summoning Satan discovered at the bottom of a latrine in Germanywww.livescience.comCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: archaeology@mander.xyz
minus-squareGuy Dudeman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·11 months agoI just love that modern archaeologists are literally digging through ancient human excrement to learn about how we used to be.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·11 months agoAnd I love that they find funny ways in which we’ve always been human, like the penis graffiti in Pompeii.
minus-squareNepenthe@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-211 months agoYou 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.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 months agoAncient graffiti is glorious. Almost as endearing as ancient pet mausoleums.
minus-squarestevedidWHAT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoWe use it to fuel our power grids too! At a certain point everything just becomes biomass 😅
minus-squaremuse@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoAncient satan poop tablets are powering the electric grid!?
minus-squarestevedidWHAT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoWait till you hear what we do with horseshoe crabs
I just love that modern archaeologists are literally digging through ancient human excrement to learn about how we used to be.
And I love that they find funny ways in which we’ve always been human, like the penis graffiti in Pompeii.
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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.
Ancient graffiti is glorious.
Almost as endearing as ancient pet mausoleums.
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We use it to fuel our power grids too! At a certain point everything just becomes biomass 😅
Ancient satan poop tablets are powering the electric grid!?
Wait till you hear what we do with horseshoe crabs