There’s nothing quite like having a drink to celebrate payday — turns out this tradition dates back 4,000 years, and the receipts are literal. Scientists at the National Museum of Denmark have just deciphered a clay tablet from ancient Umma (modern-day southern Iraq) that records beer payments to workers. Not…
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Ancient Machine Gun Marks Found on Pompeii’s Fortress Walls
Tight clusters of quadrangular holes. Arranged in curved lines. Spaced at regular intervals along the northern stretch of Pompeii’s fortress walls. Not random damage. Not erosion. Not the work of Mount Vesuvius, which buried the city under ash in 79 CE—nearly two centuries after these marks were made. According to…