Were Ancient People Funny? (Or Just Weird?) | Tales From the Bottle

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The oldest known joke in human history dates  back to the earliest known civilization, Sumer, and was written in the earliest known  writing system, cuneiform, on a tablet dated to around 1900 BC. The nearly four thousand  year old joke roughly translates as follows: "Something which has never  occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not ... Read More