Why would you not choose the obviously superior Gromit mug?

it's always so wild to see ancient art being realistic, and then you look at medieval art and it's just..

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

God damn it fossil you are on a fucking roll these memes slap butt (in a good way)

Interesting how much the ancient mug looks like modern dog breeds. I would've expected them to look more wolfy.

doggy

c/SocialScienceMemes

(Does this exist? It deserves to exist, if for no other reason than to encourage heated debates over where psychology memes should go)

I guess for thousands of years we’ve been looking at our dogs and thinking ‘that’s kinda neat, I would like more things to remind me of you’.

"History is written by the victors." - what I immediately thought of.

The 4th Century BCE Greek Mug™ Dog's face expression is subtle anthropomorphism at its finest.

How much radically different were you expecting people living then to be? Running around at 90 kph in magical celery shoes? People living much further back were memorializing their hands on cave walls and we do much the same but with canvas and other media.