this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
626 points (99.4% liked)
Mildly Interesting
21430 readers
627 users here now
This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Pics or it didn't happen.
How long have pics existed? How long is history? And yet I'm thinking there could still be a pic.
IIRC history started with the invention of written word, somewhere around 6000 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history
Cave art existed for at least 40000 years
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/ten-oldest-known-cave-paintings-in-the-world
I would say, that drawings also count as history. They show glimpses how how life has been 10.000 and more years ago.