The Internet in Ancient Times
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- I would have gone with aurochs.theonion.com Bronze Age Man Would Have Worn Nicer Pelts If He’d Known Scientists Would Find His Preserved Body In Bog
DARTMOOR, ENGLAND—Caught off guard in one of his ratty old goatskin tunics, Bronze Age tribesman Lugu claimed Thursday that he would have dressed in much nicer pelts had he known that scientists would find his preserved body in a bog 4,000 years after selecting the outfit. “Shit, I would have put on...
- Look at the sort of thing the BCE third millennials are giving to their kids these days. How are they ever going to learn to make log rollers or sledge runners?
Just another way to make them lazy and entitled with this "wheel" shit.
- Dishonerable ancestor
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19556196
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- What are yall's thoughts on this new "papyrus"?
Today when I was visiting the marketplace for some new pots, I came across a merchant selling these odd, a bit fabric-like white sheets. He told me that the Egyptians make these from reeds to write on them.
Personally, I don't see a need for such a material. Just use a clay tablet like a normal person!
- Sword From The Orient For Sale
High quality oriental sword that took over 2 years to transport across the Silk Road.
Kept in my cellar in ideal storage conditions.
Don't try to lowball me, I know what I got.
- Grunk hate looking for job
Grunk need job. Grunk see job carving. Carving say need ten season experience with wheel. But Grunk invent wheel 5 season ago. Grunk think job giver have wheel in place of head.
- I finally tracked him down! Let's get him!
(This was apparently a cosplayer at DragonCon this year.)
- Has anyone seen Ötzi?
He said he was going up to the mountains and would be right back down, but that was at least one phase of the moon ago.
- My seer just told me of this omen he saw in the moon. Should I be worried or should I get rid of the seer? "When the Moon fully slips into Earth's shadow, a king shall die."
Description: Clay tablet from Old Babylonia with lunar-eclipse omens inscribed on it in cuneiform.
Article here: https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-reveal-ominous-warning-in-ancient-babylonian-tablet
