Archaeologists found cheese in an Ancient Egyptian tomb – the 16 funniest takes

Oonagh Keating. Updated August 20th, 2018

When ABC news tweeted that an ancient cheese had been found, it was a short, sharp rollercoaster of emotions – the high of “cheese found”, quickly followed by the low of “deadly disease”.

World's oldest cheese found in Egyptian tomb — but it may be filled with a deadly disease https://t.co/c7EuWavjgE pic.twitter.com/h89codLGXC

— ABC News (@abcnews) August 17, 2018

It reminded a lot of people about another fairly recent story.

https://twitter.com/mushroomallow/status/1030550049888120833

https://twitter.com/soyboyincarnate/status/1030482221084360705

Eat the cursed cheese.
Drink the sarcophagus juice. https://t.co/bpUY6kV0Gf

— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) August 17, 2018

Pairs nicely with red cursed sarcophagus liquid. https://t.co/UYN9BphmmU

— Alan Johnson (@AlanJohnson) August 17, 2018

this would pair *so* well with the cursed red sarcophagus juice https://t.co/ptcy9rAIi8

— Dan Hett (@danhett) August 18, 2018

let us now seek out the ancient pasta, and together with this diseased cheese and the red skeleton juice we shall bake the ziti that ends the earth https://t.co/0K9BrwGlHs

— michael "cohost.org/lutz" lutz (@WarrenIsDead) August 17, 2018

We can see why they went there. Other people had some different takes to share and we’ve found our 16 favourites.

I hereby dub it King Tutankhamembert https://t.co/WnOUQ4m2Xt

— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) August 19, 2018

Nope. The world's oldest cheese filled with a deadly disease is currently the President of the United States. https://t.co/RlXII4Pd1W

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 17, 2018

tell them i died doing what i loved https://t.co/WVdGVLsWZT

— Sas Milledge (@sasmilledge) August 19, 2018

https://twitter.com/LeavittAlone/status/1030450559428509697

When you're playing as Tomb Kings against the Skaven… https://t.co/OZYJ3hs0yW

— Total War (@totalwar) August 17, 2018

https://twitter.com/ColleenDoran/status/1030480262872817664

Our ancestors literally took Gebna Mish with them to the afterlife and y’all still hit us with the “modern Egyptians aren’t descendants of ancient Egyptians” smh https://t.co/Zxb2x7qnfd

— E.Y.🌴 (@emanyxo) August 18, 2018

https://twitter.com/skinnyd0gs/status/1030510627066978304

First the sarcophagus. Now tomb cheese. There is a third object we need to find before time runs out. https://t.co/o00M3QFbdt

— Jean Giardina (@JeanGiardina) August 19, 2018

10.

https://twitter.com/lex_looper/status/1030854191269470208

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https://twitter.com/ratwolv/status/1030837333074096128

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