June 24, 2007

The Ancient Standard. From King Tut's taste in wine to ancient pornography.
posted by analoghuman 17 years ago
  • Wow! Certainly not serious history lectures, and written lightly enough to feel a bit like gossip, but gives you enough basic information to go find more on a broad range of subjects you might want to research in depth. Nice post, analoghuman! But now I have to go rest because my brain hurts, and I didn't even get through all the archives.
  • This site makes me wince.
  • 2,100-Year-Old Fruit Salad? Just slightly older than what's in my fridge. I want to know WHY they drew those lines, dang it!!
  • Nice, and even if it's light seems to have plenty of links to fuller academic treatments of the subjects.
  • Is it my imagination, or did the article about pornogrophy talk about pornography pottery, then show a figure of a mother nursing a child?
  • OMG BOOBS!
  • "...or did the article about pornogrophy..." It wasn't an article about pornographic pottery, it was an article about pottery depicting various subjects, including gamahuching, tallywackers and so forth.
  • Nice one! I can see myself using some of these stories for our kids' newsletter.
  • Right. And yet, if it wasn't an article about pornographic pottery, why was it titled "Pre-Columbian Pottery Porno (ca. 100-800 AD)"
  • Those wacky Pre-Columbians! *heads off to drink post pre-columbian coffee
  • "why was it titled "Pre-Columbian Pottery Porno...?" ... you got me, there.
  • It's all about the alliteration, baby.
  • Hi Guys, First of all, thanks for featuring our site here! We really appreciate it! Insolent Chimp, what about the site makes you wince? Any feedback that will help us improve the user experience would be great! :) Re: the Moche article, we didn't post any of the extremely explicit pottery pieces in the post to keep it sfw, if you follow the link to the museum and surf around a bit you can find the porno pieces.... and in all honesty, the topic was chosen to make people stop and take notice. :) Anyway, thanks again for checking us out guys!
  • How dare you post here and give this site a hint of legitimacy!
  • They're watching their referral logs very intently!
  • *Looks around nervously But, but, but, how did they find us? better cool the smartalec comments, guys, somebody's watching
  • Hi, Ancient Standard! Thanks for the info. Nobody ever comes and answers our questions when we mob their sites. I think we scare them. And, in all fairness, the topic certainly made us stop and take notice. Nice site!
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  • This just feels weird. Next thing you know, we're going to get replies from Tom Cruise and Cheney.
  • Maybe, but Tom will just spout pure unadulterated craziness.
  • And Cheney.... ulp!
  • If Chillee Ugum comes over here, I'll spew otter bile out my ears!