@CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish • 1 year agoMedieval 'curse tablet' summoning Satan discovered at the bottom of a latrine in Germanywww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down11
arrow-up1115arrow-down1external-linkMedieval 'curse tablet' summoning Satan discovered at the bottom of a latrine in Germanywww.livescience.com@CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareNepenthelinkfedilink16•edit-21 year 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-squareFlashMobOfOnelinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year 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.