Fucking with future archeologists
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>go back in time.
>Take a clay tablet.
>Write gibberish syllables on it.
>plant it somewhere people will find it one day.
>People in the future will think its an unknown language and spend countless hours trying to figure it out.
*picture unrelated
>>1427665
there's been places where similar things have happened, namely shit people wrote down in the more preserved ancient towns, including a treasure trove of shit from Pompeii that includes everything from daily gossip to political commentary.
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
it's actually pretty funny that we get to see shit like "I'm fucking Lucius' wife" 2200 years later.
>>1427665
That's pretty much how the Voynich manuscript came to be
>>1427740
And also the Priory of Sion, which was created for the lols by a French con-artist who went around planting fake documents in archives.
>>1428010
Tell me more about this.
The entire history of the Roman Empire is an elaborate hoax dreamed up by the future folk.
