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The Nazca culture flourished from 100 BCE to 800 CE in what is now southern Peru. While most famous for their massive earthwork glyphs, the Nazca Lines, they also made brightly-colored pottery.

Pottery with characters that look as if they could be in modern memes. I'm not kidding, this is not a specifically-plucked outlier. About half of the humanoid figures on Nazca pottery artifacts I've seen look as if they could receive either subtitles or word-bubbles and go directly on social media. Check out the Nazca collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the collection of Nazca Pottery on the Wikimedia Commons for more examples.

There's something just so... relatable about these.