[RightWingAtheist]

I remember reading about how archaeologists found graffiti amongst the Greek and Roman ruins. My favorite was one found on a wall in Pompei: "SERENA HATES ISADORE"

[RadioAstronomer]

LOL!

I still liked the notion that a potter using a needle to enscribe a line on a pot may have recorded local sounds from a market place on the pot not unlike a vinyl record. (Pipe dream I know)

[FreedomCalls]

I remember reading about how archaeologists found graffiti amongst the Greek and Roman ruins.

Here's a bunch more: http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin_Vulgar/Texts/Pompeii_Graffiti.html

Samples:

Celadus the Thracier makes the girls moan!

Profit is happiness!

I've caught a cold.

Caution. Some are quite bawdy.

[Tax-chick]

My mother just left for Italy yesterday, and I think her tour includes Pompeii (again). That's such an amazing place. Romans wrote everything on the walls, just like people stick notices on the telephone poles around here :-).

[Hegemony Cricket]

Heh, heh, heh. That's reminds me of something I read many years ago, about a wall that was excavated, that was divided into squares for use as a sort of classified advertisement system. Each square had multiple layers of messages, such as cattle for sale, job postings, etc. Anyway, one layer of one square had a message that roughly translated: "I am amazed that this wall has not collapsed under the weight of all the crap that has been put on it."