stirringwind:

i mean, throughout history so many things change but i like how there are so many things that we as modern viewers just relate to effortlessly? whether it’s a 3000 year old burnt cooking pot or that sumerian clay tablet where a customer complains about the wrong grade of copper being delivered. like you look at this thing that is almost 4000 years old and ‘aw, it’s just like that bad amazon review i left!’ or that roman soldier’s letter where he’s basically ‘british weather sucks balls can u pls send me warm socks’. like, underneath the hugely different ways people lived back then, their massively different beliefs, the fact they lived under long-gone empires and spoke dead languages…there’s still always that thread of continuity because it’s just so human. i love it.