In 1492 two Irish families, the Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare, were involved in a bitter feud. This disagreement centred around the position of Lord Deputy. Both families wanted one of their own to hold the position....this tension broke into outright warfare. However, The Butlers, realising that the fighting was getting out of control, took refuge in the Chapter House of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The FitzGeralds followed them into the Cathedral and asked them to come out and make peace. The Butlers, afraid that if they did so they would be slaughtered, refused. FINALLY.......As a gesture of good faith the head of the Kildare family, Gerald FitzGerald, ordered that a hole be cut in the door. He then thrust his arm through the door and offered his hand in peace to those on the other side. Upon seeing that FitzGerald was willing to risk his arm by putting it through the door the Butlers reasoned that he was serious in his intention. They shook hands through the door, the Butlers emerged from the Chapter House and the two families made peace.
Only 90,000 of them survived the actual battle. Of those, only 5,000 were still alive at the end of the war.
Image tax: the grain elevator that was the scene of some of the most horrific fighting in Stalingrad and thus, by definition, some of the most horrific fighting that ever occurred in the world ever.
Fun fact: that scene was filmed in New York: as they couldn’t get away with the sign as it is in the movie, they wrote “I Hate Everyone” and altered it digitally afterwards
Early meeting of Axis Powers political leaders. Note the look on Mussolini's face (he was the only person in the room who spoke every language being spoken there):
The tombs of Ramses V and Ramses VI, who briefly reigned during the 12th century BC, are absolutely covered in graffiti left by Roman soldiers, merchants, and just random nobodies because it was believed it held the remains of King Memnon, the mythical king of Ethiopia mentioned in the Iliad as fighting alongside the Trojans.
Some choice Roman shitposts left behind include:
I visited and I did not like anything but the sarcophagus!
I can not read the hieroglyphs!
Why do you care that you cannot read the hieroglyphs? I do not understand your concern! (immediately below the previous inscription)
I admired!
I, Ammonios, singularis of Italy, saw and admire it.
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Not technically graffiti but related to ancient Egypt is what is known as the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, which the last known inscription made in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Written in 394 AD, very few people could read the script by this time.
It reads as follows: Before Mandulis, son of Horus, by the hand of Nesmeterakhem, son of Nesmeter, the Second Priest of Isis, for all time and eternity. Words spoken by Mandulis, lord of the Abaton, great god.
