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[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 269 points 2 months ago

Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? http://artisticlicenseorwhyitrustnoone.blogspot.com/2022/11/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian.html?m=1

tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 120 points 2 months ago

Let me guess. A model carrot, squash was there also. And a drawing of a farmer with his shirt off.

[-] mst@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 2 months ago

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 40 points 2 months ago

Butt plugs and corn ribbed for her pleasure

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah picture didnt help their cause, thats a whole bunch of ancient sex toys.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 7 points 2 months ago

How thoughtful of them to ensure that the deceased would have something to put up their butt in the underworld.

[-] tabris@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Porous material and no flared bases, not approved.

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

[-] Tja@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago

🍆

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

No it was a final insult, telling them to go fk themselves /s

[-] Alice@beehaw.org 33 points 2 months ago

People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn't a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.

I remember seeing a ton of "archeologists: tHeY'rE jUsT fRiEnDs" comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

Seems like a case where a particular claim of a select group was generalised over a supergroup by way of being the subject of memes that ran away with the stereotype.

It's like that one fraud falsifying studies about a specific type of vaccines in an attempt to sell his own, only for people to latch on to the "vaccine bad" part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.

Does anyone still know where the original "just friends" claim stems from, in which context, supported by which arguments, what refutations have been offered since and just how widespread among archaeologists it is today?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

also like, is it really that hard to imagine that archeologists went "well this is a gay couple but uh, we can't really say that, so let's just informally agree that 'close friends' is euphemism for 'gay couple', okay?"