14 Memes From The Weird Ancient World

The past is never gone, it’s not even really the past, and these sixteen history memes of the ancient world freshly excavated from Reddit’s /r/historymemes prove that the memory (and memery!) of ancient civilizations is alive and well. You may already know about famous civilizations like Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome, but there's also plenty here for the connoisseur, the deep cuts of ancient history memes: the Hittites, some inheritor civilizations to Rome, and the fearsome and mysterious Sea Peoples.

History when you were in school in school might have been taught out of a book written by scholars, but history today can be learned from random strangers on the interwebs. So go ahead and scroll through these thoughtful, considered takes on the human past from the passionate and rigorous researchers at r/historymemes and prepare to learn what you were never taught about the ancient world and its based dankitude.