From Cracked.com…
The 6 Most Embarrassing Historical Artifacts Ever Discovered
Just goes to show our ancestors weren’t all that different from us in many respects.
Still, quite amusing. Reminds me of some of the things discovered in the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
For those who don’t know, Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried and lost for many hundreds of years following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. (You can read an interesting history of the town and its rediscovery here). As excavations of Pompeii gained steam, plenty of “interesting” artwork was found intact, just as it was at the moment Mt. Vesuvius erupted. In more modern times, the archaeologists and their benefactors found themselves embarrassed by some of the things they found and some of the rediscovered items were locked away and/or simply not talked about.
Today, with our more open society, there is more information available regarding some of the more notorious elements found in both Pompeii and Herculaneum. Perhaps the biggest thing revealed is the fact that Roman culture of that time was much more liberal when it came to sexuality.
See for yourself:
Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum
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