These are apparently some of the oldest jokes ever written,humor is certainly timeless
1600 BC, Egypt:
How do you entertain a bored pharaoh?
You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish.
1200 BC, Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq/Iran)
Three ox drivers from Adab were thirsty: one owned the ox, the other owned the cow and the other owned the wagon's load. The owner of the ox refused to get water because he feared his ox would be eaten by a lion; the owner of the cow refused because he thought his cow might wander off into the desert; the owner of the wagon refused because he feared his load would be stolen. So they all went. In their absence the ox made love to the cow which gave birth to a calf which ate the wagon's load. Problem: Who owns the calf?!
800 BC, Greece (From Homer's The Odyssey ):
Odysseus tells the Cyclops that his real name is nobody. When Odysseus instructs his men to attack the Cyclops, the Cyclops shouts: "Help, nobody is attacking me!" No one comes to help.
304 BC, Egypt:
Man is even more eager to copulate than a donkey - his purse is what restrains him
63 BC, Rome:
Augustus was touring his Empire and noticed a man in the crowd who bore a striking resemblance to himself.
Intrigued he asked: "Was your mother at one time in service at the Palace?"
"No your Highness," he replied, "but my father was."
400 AD, Greece:
Wishing to teach his donkey not to eat, a pedant did not offer him any food. When the donkey died of hunger, he said "I've had a great loss. Just when he had learned not to eat, he died."
Oldest Jokes from the UK
1000 AD, England:
What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before?
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Answer: A key
1526 AD, England:
When a boy was asked by the Law to say his father's craft, the boy answered that his father was a crafty man of Law.
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