What Did Ancient Humans Actually Do For Fun?

What did ancient humans do for fun before phones, money, or even farming? From a 40,000-year-old vulture-bone flute to the Royal Game of Ur, the oldest known sculpture of lovers, and the brothel walls of Pompeii, this is the story of how humans invented pleasure for free, and how cities and money eventually put a price on it. 00:00 - What Did Ancient Humans Do for Pleasure? 00:30 - Ancient Humans Had More Free Time Than You Think 01:23 - The First Pleasure: Music 02:20 - The Second Pleasure: Games and Gambling 03:36 - The Third Pleasure: Sex and Ancient Art 04:35 - When Pleasure Became a Business 05:23 - The Rise of Prostitution in Ancient Cities 06:06 - The Pompeii Discovery and Its Price 07:12 - What Ancient Pleasure Tells Us About Modern Life 07:44 - Final Takeaway Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/7256666b https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_G... https://www.getty.edu/education/colle... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupanar https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna... https://aeon.co/essays/what-hunter-ga... https://quillette.com/2017/12/16/roma... https://popular-archaeology.com/artic... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamhat https://keibi.uni-tuebingen.de/Record... #AncientHistory #History #Archaeology #Pompeii #AncientHumans #HistoryFacts #Educational