Ancient Enthusiast Gifts

'Say, Euclid, how do we get to the Acropolis?'

'And now I've got gum stuck to the bottom of my sandal, that's it, I'm out of here.'

'That's a bad omen no sooner does he invent the wheel than he has the first ever road traffic accident.'

"That's the one I like best, but everyone else seems to like the other one."

A man selling discount pots in pompeii

"No flash in the ancient mummy gallery."

"Cold! You aren't very kind!"

Hippocrates

"I can't believe how young I look."

'Definitely fake.'

Period dwelling

OOG & SONS HUNTING & GATHERING

Mummies for Dummies

'So, do you smoke?'

"Apparently, he was the most disapproving of all the Pharaohs."

Alphabet Block Pyramid

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

Sphinx cat and mummy mouse

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

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

Sundial Time

"Well, that certainly killed my buzz."

Those Were The Days

'Evidently, one of them was a cartoonist!'

'Why can't we just kick Caesar upstairs?'

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!'

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

Antiques

"Here's the parking lot."

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

I'm not sure which, but he's just invented either writing or vandalism. (Published originally on Feb. 11, 2011.)

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Trojan horse with a satellite dish.