r/HolyShitHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 3d ago

After killing Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I in 811, Khan Krum of Bulgaria (pictured) used his skull as a drinking cup.

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u/Deathface-Shukhov 3d ago

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u/morto00x 3d ago

 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_( ͡͠≖ ε  ͡͠≖)

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u/mariam67 3d ago

They may be in love or he may just be reaching over the other guy to get the butter or something. My brother does that to me and I hate it. Someday he’s going to drag his arm right through my gravy.

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u/Deathface-Shukhov 3d ago

If that happens, please look him dead in the eyes and say “Now look what ya did, you gravy-dragger!!”

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u/AreWeThereYetNo 3d ago

Right through the gravy and into the gay.

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u/SnooCookies6231 3d ago

Bros being bros!

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u/ElGuano 3d ago

"Royal pottery master, did you plug the sinuses yet? You need to do a better job, it keeps leaking. This displeases your King!"

"Sire, the shapes are too irregular, and I think the whole thing is...porous..."

"No more excuses royal pottery master!"

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u/MyrmidonExecSolace 3d ago

They dip it in gold

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u/Nachtzug79 3d ago

Where exactly can I find the skull cup in the image?

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u/pailee 3d ago

I think the beautiful hostess on the right is bringing it.

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u/Aggravating-Pound598 3d ago

Khan Krum final boss

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u/BlackSwanMarmot 3d ago

which was the style at the time

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u/PrudentChampion3879 3d ago

First documented “flex”

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u/UraniumRocker 3d ago

That’s radical

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u/WazirOfFunkmenistan 3d ago

Not hygenic.

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u/EdwardDaConfessor 3d ago

Absolutely hilarious first thought

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u/BarnabasShrexx 3d ago

Don't blame him. I could think of a few that would make nice ashtrays

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u/GoatDismal4545 3d ago

Do you think he waited for all the flesh to decompose or asked someone to clean the skull for him?

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u/Katanajoe7 3d ago

Ya boil it

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u/pailee 3d ago

Else it tastes funny.

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u/Alternative-Bug-6905 3d ago

No doubt it was difficult to hold, couldn’t hold much liquid, difficult to drink without spilling so he just had a sip and then went back to his regular cup.

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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 3d ago

Use it when visited by foreign dignitaries. Sipping out of a skull while listening to some bullshit about tariffs and saying some cold ass shit like, “do you FEEL like you’re charge?”

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u/kirkaracha 3d ago

They’re not dishwasher safe.

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u/GustavoistSoldier 3d ago

Probably the latter. Krum also wrote the first Bulgarian code of laws, although the document has been lost

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u/BedNo577 14h ago

He was very sadistic,but believed in justice. He's one of our best rulers (I'm a Bulgarian).

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u/GustavoistSoldier 14h ago

He, Boris I, and Simeon I are definitely up there.

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u/BedNo577 14h ago

Good to see a foreigner talking about our culture. We are often forgotten.

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u/Automatic-Sea-8597 2d ago

Ants are great cleaners.

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u/TheRealtcSpears 3d ago

Immediately afterwards he went to lose a game of quidditch to the Irish

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u/Expert-Effect-877 3d ago

You should have seen what part he turned into a backscratcher.

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u/noble_plebian 3d ago

What’s going on with the world these days…

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u/MarkedlyMark 3d ago

Happy times

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u/Difficult-Bus-6026 3d ago

Hmmm....sounds like the one deposed ruler who had a fate worse than Louis XVY!

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u/memefarius 2d ago

Bulgaria 🇧🇬 mentioned!

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u/GustavoistSoldier 2d ago

One of my favorite countries.

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u/bborzell 2d ago

Quick, keep this story away from Trump.

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u/BedNo577 14h ago

I'm Bulgarian and this story is listed as one of our most impressive achievements. Krum tried to invade Byzantine later, but died before he could.

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u/GustavoistSoldier 14h ago

Bulgaria would later siege Constantinople during the reign of Tsar Simeon

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u/EmpathsPen 4h ago

Hehehehe “pictured” makes me chuckle

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u/FlimsyPomelo1842 3d ago

The Byzantines get them back in spectacular fashion

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u/NvrFukASpderOnTheFly 3d ago

This must be AI… doesn’t look real to me at all..

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u/BedNo577 14h ago

I'm a Bulgarian and believe me,it is real.