I love how many dicks have been drawn in historical artifacts by the people who built them. I remember reading about an engraving at the very top of an old column which the building was too unstable to get close enough to see for a long time. I think when they got up there and translated it it said something like "this is very high". It's nice to know people have always been people.

There's a minor fortification somewhere, I think it was roman. Outside the walls they found a fawn skeleton, fully articulated, with no butchery marks and a broken leg that had healed a bit before death. Nearby is the fully articulated skeleton of a cat.

The thinking is that a soft hearted soldier, child or spouse found a fawn with a broken leg. They tried to nurse it back to health and when it died they buried it near their cat.

In Lom Stave Church, a Norwegian church from the 12th century, there are Nordic runes carved into the wooden wall, right below the ceiling.

They read:
"I was here, all the way up in the corner."

https://www.worldhistory.org/...

In line with Ea Nasir, Artifactually Speaking is a youtube channel run by an archaeologist who works on digs around Ur. In one of his latest videos (the ancient toilet one) he mentions this:

"Sin-nada traveled a lot, but he often wrote letters back home to his wife [...]. In the letter [...] Sin-Nada asks Nuttuptum 'why she is angry in her heart' . It appears Nuttuptum was concerned that her husband was paying too much attention to his work for the temple, and neglecting his family."

Two examples:

1. They found a skeleton that dates before writing was invented (like way before). The skeleton had a broken bone that heeled. Which means that someone was taking care of them. So before writing was invented human have already established a society that allowed for supporting of the weak.
2. There are poop and fart jokes in Greek plays.

Whining about zoomers is inline with tradition. Humans have been complaining about younger generations for thousands of years.

https://historyhustle.com/...

In 1945, Oppenheimer pioneered the quest for the creation of the atomic bombs. His defense was it's "the weapon to end all wars" supposedly by the fear inspired by its sheer power. Looking back, you can find such eerily similar moments where this defense is littered throughout the course of human history in response to several different things. So even if unintentional, it's definitely BS.

There were anti maskers during the 1918 Influenza pandemic.

People taking on personal hardship to help strangers out of pure empathy.

Medicine existed in some form as long as humanity has, despite it helping other humans in surviving and reproducing instead of just the self.

War, we have always been good at killing, no signs that we will stop anytime soon.

In 1976, Benjamin Netanyahu's brother died. A flight from Israel to Paris had been hijacked by some Palestinian and German terrorists, and flown to Uganda, where they demanded release of prisoners, threatening to kill the Israeli and Jewish passengers (the rest were released). Israel decided to launch a mission on foreign soil to rescue them, and I think Bibi's older brother was the sole Israeli casualty.

What we are seeing today in Gaza is most likely, mostly, as a direct result of that death. Raw caveman emotion. (with a few decades of carefully layered public relations)

[now I'm going to go upvote all the heart-warming examples of human kindness in this thread]

i don't think we have any historically recorded events from 10k years ago. heck, ea-nasir only goes back less than 4k.

I'm going to be a pedant and note that recorded history is only ~6k years old, for those parts of the world that had by then started writing shit down in non-perishable form (at the time, or at least before the spoken memories were lost forever). And much shorter for others, obv.

This question is difficult to frame accurately, but "events from BCE" might work, if you want examples that occurred multiple thousands of years ago.

War .... any kind of war for any reason.

The idea that the only way to for us to settle disputes or disagreements with others is to organize ourselves into competing camps, make fancy plans and use all our technical knowledge and technology to kill one another.

Our ancient prehistorical ancestors had the same logic thousands of years ago and used sticks, spears, rocks and their bare hands.

Today, we use drones, machine guns, army tanks, naval ships and nuclear weapons.

The technology has changed ... but our mentality is still the same.

Humanity has fundamentally changed in the last 10k years.