I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like âMarcus is gayâ âI fucked a girl hereâ âJulius your mum wishes she was with meâ and leonardo da vinciâs assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called âkiss my assâ so when people wish for âtodayâs generationâ to be like âhow people used toâ then weâre already there buddy weâve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying âHalfdan wrote thisâ
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was âthis is very highâ
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
âPeople have literally just always been peopleâ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
âTimes are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.â - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC
Common dog names have literally not changed in 3,000 years.
so not nearly as old but, this is a 12th century stave church in lom, norway (one of less than 40 left in the world)
itâs hard to see, but in the top left corner of this photo where the light comes in from the window, thereâs a runic inscription
these photos show it more clearly, itâs easier to see in person. so of course one of the people i was travelling with asked what it said, and we were told it basically translates to:
âon this day, I climbed to this point, in the corner of the churchâ
people really have always been people
âIt may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.â
