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Novelist & podcaster|Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020)|Creator of @Fall_of_Civ_Pod|Bylines in @nytimes, @TheAtlantic, @NatGeo, @BBC

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    Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

    The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever. I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day & recorded that instant for all of history.pic.twitter.com/w9ojHeVuIU

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      2. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        These 4,000-year-old mud bricks were stamped with the name and titles of the Sumerian king Ur-Nammu (reigned 2047-2030 BCE) and left out to dry. However, someone else thought to leave their mark too.pic.twitter.com/tqfCwj3baX

        9 replies 411 retweets 1,698 likes
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      3. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        You can almost hear the brickmaker shooing away his dog from this clay brick that was used in the building of the Ziggurat of Ur (21st century BCE).pic.twitter.com/eHbnvQppKA

        9 replies 239 retweets 1,128 likes
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      4. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        A dog ran over these 2,000-year-old Roman tiles before they could dry, found in the Blackfriars area of Leicester, England.pic.twitter.com/nfnvyjfjf4

        6 replies 123 retweets 705 likes
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      5. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        It's not just cats and dogs that ruin our days. This Roman tile was stepped on by the hoof of a sheep or goat over 2,000 years ago while it was lying out to dry.pic.twitter.com/lLwwWHshH4

        2 replies 45 retweets 475 likes
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      6. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        While the scribe of this 15th-century medieval manuscript from Dubrovnik, Croatia, was working, a cat seems to have jumped first onto the ink container and then on to the book, leaving it marked forever.pic.twitter.com/wXiyrHQgQy

        9 replies 371 retweets 1,249 likes
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      7. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        The scribe of this book has written, “Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book… because of it many others did too. And beware not to leave open books at night where cats can come.”pic.twitter.com/2ZVdS6bKyH

        18 replies 774 retweets 2,097 likes
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      8. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        The scribe of this 13th-century Hebrew manuscript must have left it unattended while an oily-pawed visitor came prowling.pic.twitter.com/ljqC60BiYv

        1 reply 68 retweets 493 likes
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      9. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        Cats had an important role in Libraries and Scriptoriums. They controlled the mice and rats that loved to nibble on the pages of the books and caused a great deal of damage to many manuscripts, such as this one.pic.twitter.com/iwsGEim8DQ

        3 replies 110 retweets 536 likes
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      10. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        This Roman rooftile was left out to dry in Gloucester, England, around 100 CE. Then a cat and her litter of kittens wandered over it.pic.twitter.com/H4Hzx9IvuS

        2 replies 121 retweets 631 likes
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      11. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        This 1st-century Roman tile seems to have been left on its side to dry, which created a fun obstacle course for this tiny kitten.pic.twitter.com/d3V9dRFKRc

        3 replies 106 retweets 586 likes
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      12. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        This pawprint is from a Roman villa in the Rhineland, and was found on the hypercaust that kept the floor and the whole villa warm.pic.twitter.com/78Eq5tWev5

        3 replies 33 retweets 373 likes
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      13. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        Recent ultraviolet photography of this Japanese map from the 17th century, depicting the port city of Nagasaki, revealed the paw prints of a cat all over it.pic.twitter.com/CMJ6Uysb5n

        2 replies 133 retweets 664 likes
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      14. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        This medieval Japanese manuscript was going well, until the scribe’s cat decided it wasn’t getting enough attention.pic.twitter.com/wkySxX4Y2R

        6 replies 283 retweets 883 likes
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      15. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 17 Feb 2018

        That's all for now! Of course, humans are perfectly capable of screwing things up themselves, as this Roman tile shows.pic.twitter.com/MYeEtk22uM

        17 replies 49 retweets 542 likes
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      16. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 19 Feb 2018

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        Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this, I've gathered together some threads on other interesting historical moments & artefacts here:https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/965569818526142465 …

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        A thread-of-threads on fascinating people, revealing artefacts & interesting aspects of history I've stumbled across during my research.
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      17. Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 3 Sep 2018

        And if you'd like to chip me a tip, you can do so here: http://Ko-fi.com/paulmmcooper 

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