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-square24fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down11cross-posted to: archaeology@mander.xyz
arrow-up1118arrow-down1external-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-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: archaeology@mander.xyz
minus-squareNepenthe@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20·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-up10arrow-down1·11 months agoAncient graffiti is glorious. Almost as endearing as ancient pet mausoleums.
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.