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I think its wonderful that thousands of years ago, humans gave cute nicknames to pets, wrote each other love letters, made complaints about not being paid enough, and wrote graffiti on walls.
We really haven't changed all that much.
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I remember graffiti bemoaning the poor state of young people
IE stuff about not respecting their elders, being lazy, drinking, petty crime and so on.
The graffiti was excavated in the ash buried ruins of Pompeii Italy.
IE it was from 79 AD
John in Wauwatosa
The Last Days
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Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
Aye, yep. this is comforting, and is also very frightening.
One of my (grade school) history books told us of a boy who was doing poorly in cuneiform school.
The boy's Dad invited the teacher over for a great meal, and gave him a fine robe.
Somehow, complaints about Junior dropped dramatically ...
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Nepotism, the hiring of one's relatives and similar, is from a root word meaning nephew.
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Don't know if this is still true. My Mom told me (mid 1960's) that parts of Pompeii were closed to ordinary tourists for being too naughty.
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Pomeiis death had witnesses, and stories survived. One was of a blind boy whose dog would steal rolls and buns for the boy. 'Casts' of the bodies of those died have been found. One was of a dog ... with seeds in their mouth.
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One place (probably Rome, maybe Greece) had a series of the outline of two feet and a pubic triangle carved into the pavement. It's hard to guess wrongly as to what these led to.
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Lastly, Shanidar 1 lived for quite some time after a severe, crippling injury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanidar_Cave#Shanidar_1. Clearly, his people took care of him.
"Bonus points": Many Europeans carry a small percentage of Neanderthal genes.
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