Ancient Culture Fan Gifts

'But we agreed on terracotta- you liked terracotta! I am not sending them back!'

"It's a land flowing with milk and honey, with a small but lively arts district."

"Not you again Achilles."

"Well, I guess we know who the gatherer is in that relationship!"

Zeus Lightning Bolts

Carpe diem

'Wellington!...Come take a look at this!...I've never seen anything like it!...Some sort of early sun worship etching perhaps!'

Egyptian Cruise

"Of course I like the cave. I'm a cave woman."

"On the next one, I want a water slide."

The Curse of the Mummy

"Is that two or five pints?"

'No wonder this is so hard to translate - it's a note from his doctor.'

Put that away.

"A beer for me and one for the Woad!"

'Somebody got some sun.'

Hat Stand Sacrifice.

'Picture in picture.'

"There has to be a better way to remember the way back."

Is he urging us to victory or telling us to "take five"? Rome.

I suspect we'll find the coffin painter in that last one.

'It's an extinction notice.'

"We're having one heck of a time building that trapezoidal thing of yours..."

'Evidently, one of them was a cartoonist!'

An ancient Egyptian exhibit at a museum.

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

'But this is fantastic, professor! It's like no language I've ever seen before!'

"Darn autocorrect!"

Piles of trash discarded by ancient people are a rich source of artifacts for archaeologists. I unearthed garbage dumps that advanced our understanding of prehistoric societies. On the island of Crete I found ancient trash that increased our knowledge about the Minoan people. And I recently uncovered informative Celtic rubbish. Please stop saying studying ancient cultures by what they threw away is "junk science"!

"Take that mammoth back. It's not 'wooly' enough."

Hey, dad, do you think we could play something besides "catch"?

43AD: Romans invade Britain.

'What distinguishes man from the lower animals is the ability to make tools.'

'I don't care if it's a little storage room for King Tut, you still need a building permit and contractor's license.'

"...and if you add wind-chill factor, the next plague will be even worse!"