#i would've added the doggy from pompeii but i can't bear to think about them for too long or i start crying...

[cramenjoyer]

guinefort was a dog who was sainted in 13th century france.

laika was a dog sent into space by the soviet space program in the 1950s, the first animal in orbit.

margarita (meaning: pearl) was a pet in roman gaul and had an elaborate epitaph and mosaic on her grave site.

abuwtiyuw is the oldest known named dog, and was buried and honored at the giza necropolis.

diogenes was a greek philosopher of the cynical school. get it.

i'm really curious whether anyone has heard of a couple of these bc they are everything to me (<- archaeology student) so let me know in the tags if you know of them or don't, where you learned about them, etc. and please reblog <3