Archaeologists discover the worldâs first asshole
The figure depicted in this mosaic, which dates to around 1300 B.C., is the asshole. Even long after his death, a cult of followers worshipped him and emulated his assholishness. ISTANBUL â German archaeologists in southern Turkey have made a groundbreaking discovery: they have uncovered evidence of the worldâs first asshole. Katja Schultheiss, the archaeologist who leads the team, says the asshole was a Hittite soldier who lived around four thousand years ago. He grew tired of his peaceful agrarian community so he started to swagger around, womanize, pick on weak people and generally do things just to piss everyone off. âThe artifacts suggest this guy was a real Arschloch,â Schultheiss says. âA grade-A asshole, the first in the whole world.â The team has been excavating the site since 2008, when a pistachio farmer uncovered a cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet. The farmer gave the tablet to scholars at Gaziantep University who dated the tablet to around the year 2000 B.C. As it turns out, the artifact is a list of women the asshole slept with, and there are close to 100 entries. This drawing of an Egyptian relief shows the asshole drinking and driving with his jerk friends while flipping off strangers, âHe didnât even know their names,â Schultheiss said. âOr if he did, he didnât think they were important. Instead, he gave them degrading nicknames like âdopey wife of the blind shepherd,â âthe one who needed a bath,â or âthe farter.â He also rated their love-making between one and 60 â 60 being the base of the Mesopotamian counting system. âNone of the women scored above five,â Schultheiss said. âWhat an asshole.â The discovery of the tablet prompted the excavation, which has yielded invaluable artifacts, many of which seem to have either belonged to the asshole, or were objects of worship made by assholeâs cult of followers that existed for at least 1000 years after his death. Among the assholeâs items are bronze chariot rims, a pot to store animal fat used as hair grease, and several adorned rods that scholars believe were used to swat the butts of female slaves. This fragment of a clay tablet contains a limerick oft-repeated by the asshole. It begins, âThere was a girl from Lukka / who was so bored sheâd â¦ â Recently, Schultheiss and her team have unearthed a tomb they believe contains the assholeâs remains. The site is littered with bronze-age beer cans, misogynist limericks written on tablet fragments, and a rude caricature of a crippled slave boy. âThese items might have belonged to the asshole himself, or to his followers who gathered once a year to honor him by getting drunk, making up vile lies about local virgins, and having belching contests.â