The Internet in Ancient Times

The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world hungryphrog @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2h ago

What happened to pottery?!

So, my clumsy servant broke the amphora I've had for as long as I can remember. I went to the marketplace looking for a new one, but for some reason almost all the amphorae there were 'wheel thrown'.

What does that even mean?? Take a wheel off some poor farmer's ox-cart and throw at a clump of clay hoping you get a pot?

Are coiled pots suddenly not good enough for people anymore?!

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 1d ago

I do not approve of this sort of vigilante justice!

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 2d ago

Have you tried that stuff they put all over their food in Rome? Bleah.

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 5d ago

I don't get it. I'm a nice guy, I eat well, I work out, but I can never get a date. All Zeus has to do is turn into a swan and the ladies are all over him.

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 2w ago

Hypocrites.

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 2w ago

I dock in Sardinia and this is how I get greeted?!

You people should be ashamed of yourselves.

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 2w ago

As a representative of the Caral civilization, I wish to remind the residents of the fertile crescent that this sort of thing is TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT. Potatoes are OUR THING.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/731299?journalCode=basr

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 3w ago

I keep getting calls from this number. Not sure if it's a scam or...

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 3w ago

Preferred language

But if you select Elamite, you can't pay in copper ingots.

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 3w ago

I’m really getting sick and tired of these MEET SINGLE WOMEN IN UR AREA ads. I’m in Sumer! I’m nowhere near them!

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world PugJesus @lemmy.world 3w ago

She's my Baby-lonian

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 3w ago

And we have just three days to find out...

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world NegativeNull @lemmy.world 3w ago

"May you live in interesting times"

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 3w ago

Are these the bit coins everyone's been talking about?

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The Internet in Ancient Times @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 4w ago

I'm so tired of it. Any time you go into a restaurant or walk past a construction site, you hear the workers speaking Proto-Indo-European. THIS IS AN AKKADIAN-SPEAKING COUNTRY!