Ancient history and mythology is full of pain and tragedy, but we all know that where there's tragedy, there's humor. Throughout time, humans have laughed at their own cosmic misfortune. Sometimes, it's all we can do. We've collected some funny ancient history memes that poke fun at the past and cleverly reference significant moments in history.

There are three types of math geeks: the ones who are good at math, the vengeful ones who do math to epically own others, and the ones who study equations just so they can get the jokes in dank math memes. If we were to visualize these math geek subcategories using a three-set Venn-diagram, these dank math and science memes would lie right in the center. Before you go correcting my lazy logic, just know that I failed pre-calculus in high school. Anyway. Enjoy the memes, nerd.

We're probably not alone in feeling like history class is, well, ancient history at this point. While we enjoyed tales of social justice and exploration (and balked at tragic plagues and bloody wars), our brains haven't really held on to many of the details. Fortunately, history memes have a way of reminding us of all those sentences we highlighted in our textbooks. They provide us with the feeling of being smart as we recall the strategies of Genghis Khan, or revel in the fact that there was e…

The greatest nation on earth

Et tu, Brute?

It is said that history repeats itself. And judging by the current turmoil in Russian and Ukraine, and the consistent shit show pretty much everywhere else, the statement does bear some truth. For all the world's technological advancements, hard-learned lessons, and brutal wars, we can't seem to get past the scourges of intolerance, hatred, and greed. While this senseless repetition is exhausting to witness in real time, it's a bit less torturous when it's expressed in the form of memes. Histor…

What do we do in times of international crisis, impending doom, and possibly the threat of world war? Meme about it of course! If you haven't heard, there's trouble brewing (once again) in Eastern Europe as Russia gears up to "perform peacekeeping functions" in the separatist republics of eastern Ukraine . Plebs like us are mostly just confused, but that doesn't mean we can't make dumb jokes and memes about an international crisis whose complex history dates back to the Cold War. If you feel to…

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand these memes.

The British Museum in London is famous for more than just its historical and cultural significance. In 2019, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson told The Guardian that 'the trustees of the British Museum have become the world's largest receivers of stolen property, and the great majority of their loot is not even on public display.' Some of the museum's most famous stolen artifacts include the Elgin Marbles—a collection of classical Greek sculptures, Hoa Hakananai'a—a sculpture taken from Oro

It's meme time

Memes with a bit of educational zest

Valhalla bound

The past makes for some good memes.

History is better with memes!

Your memes are ready

Did you know the Gallipoli front was one of the worst military campaigns of WWI according to British veterans who served there? Neither did I, until I saw some random meme about it that I had to google to understand. Apparently, when the British weren't battling the Ottoman Empire on their turf, they were fighting fly swarms caused by rotting bodies, water shortages, blistering heat, lice, dysentery, and insufficient rations. Pretty nasty stuff. I'm sure there are plenty of history buffs rollin…