New Joke

My original joke was going to go something like this:

1st panel: (same)
2nd panel: Merlin: "It looks like it was written around 600 BC..."
3rd panel: Merlin: "It's written in strange symbols!"

Why were they going to be written in strange symbols, you ask? Because that's the way people wrote around 600 BC. At least, they're "strange symbols" to us, because that's not the way we write.