World’s Oldest Erotic Graffiti Discovered In Greece

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Greek scientists believe they have found the world’s earliest erotic graffiti in the windy and remote Greek island of Astypalaia, situated in the southeastern Aegean Sea.

Dr. Andreas Vlachopoulos, a specialist in prehistoric archeology, told The Guardian recently that he came across a couple of racy inscriptions and large phalluses carved into Astypalaia’s rocky peninsula at Vathy.

The archaeologist said that he that the inscriptions relating to the love between two men date back that to the fifth and sixth centuries BC and says that their discovery is “monumental in scale”.

Read more at: The Guardian