Curiosity leads us down puzzling paths, and if you were to look up the peculiar ways our ancestors used to live, you’d be grateful to be born in the 21st century, despite all the issues we’re dealing with today. The memes below depict the dark humor we need to use in order to lighten the dingy, gloomy atmosphere that history makes us feel. Those old, dusty books are full of pages offering weird, sullen pieces of information we’re not sure we’d like to know.

Let’s face it, our ancestor’s behaved outrageously, at least by today’s standards. If you were born at the bottom of the food chain back then, you wouldn’t complain about the year you had to work at Mcdonalds, dealing with Karens on a daily basis. It’s not clear when this category of memes became so infamous, but we’re glad it did because these memes are pretty elite. Scroll down and check out the best classical art memes of the week.

For more like this, you can also check out last week’s collection of dark humor.