Scholars from the University of Leipzig and Hebrew University of Jerusalem have translated a tablet carved in ancient Mesopotamia around the time of Exodus in an area in present-day Iraq. It shows what everyday people were thinking and talking about 3,500 years ago. It’s a series of crude jokes and riddles about beer, politicians, deflowering virgins and something about sex with “your mother”, although parts of that punchline are missing.
- The tablet was actually a page from the worlds oldest sit-com… “Two And A Half Cavemen”.
- One of the jokes started out, “How many blonds does it take to change a piece of wood with a flame on the end of it?”
- Of course there were no knock-knock jokes because doors hadn’t been invented yet.