Middle Eastern History Lesson

[Szczepankiewicz]

"Reading Hebrew"

A team of archaeologists was excavating in Israel when they came upon a
cave. Written across the wall of the cave were the following symbols, in
this order of appearance: A woman, a donkey, a shovel, a fish, and a
Star of David. It was considered a unique find and the writings were
said to be at least 3,000 years-old. The piece of stone was removed,
brought to the museum, and archaeologists from around the world came to
study the ancient symbols.

They held a huge meeting after months of conferences to discuss the
meaning of the markings. The President of the society pointed at the
first drawing and said, "This looks like a woman. We can judge that this
race was family oriented and held women in high esteem. You can also
tell they were intelligent, as the next symbol resembles a donkey, so,
they were smart enough to have animals help them till the soil. The next
drawing looks like a shovel of some sort, which means they even had
tools to help them. Even further proof of their high intelligence is the
fish which means that if a famine had hit the earth, whereby the food
didn’t grow, they would take to the sea for food. The last symbol
appears to be the Star of David which means they were evidently
Hebrews."

The audience applauded enthusiastically. But, a little old man stood up
in the back of the room and said, "Idiots! Hebrew is read from right to
left. It says: Holy Mackerel, Dig The Ass On That Woman!"