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===== Assyrian swimmers: 2,900-year-old carving of soldiers using inflatable goat skins to cross a river ===== | |||
[https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/assyrian-swimmers-2-900-year-old-carving-of-soldiers-using-inflatable-goat-skins-to-cross-a-river by Kristina Killgrove 23/6/25 LIVESCIENCE] | |||
This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for scuba diving nearly 3,000 years ago. But the wall panel actually depicts an army crossing a river, and soldiers are navigating the waves with the help of ancient flotation devices. | |||
===== How huge migrating animal puppets captivate in ways that climate news can’t ===== | ===== How huge migrating animal puppets captivate in ways that climate news can’t ===== | ||
