The world’s oldest “Yo mama” joke is 3,500 years old
Around 1,500 BCE, a student in ancient Babylon inscribed six riddles on a tablet. 3,500 years later, these proto-jokes lose a lot in the translation, but one thing’s for sure: the Babylonians are saying something about your mother. The tablet in question was first discovered back in 1976 by an archaeologist named J.J. van Dijk…
