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Assyrian swimmers: 2,900-year-old carving of soldiers using inflatable goat skins to cross a river
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| June 23, 2025
| Kristina Killgrove
Posted on 09/09/2025 10:00:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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A carved panel from ancient Mesopotamia depicts soldiers swimming across a riverImage credit: Alamy
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09/09/2025 10:00:39 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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09/09/2025 10:00:58 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
Where did they find the inflatable goats?
To: SunkenCiv
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09/09/2025 10:12:34 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: SunkenCiv
Interesting to note, these folks were brilliant back then. Steve Jobs’ dad was Syrian.
To: SunkenCiv
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09/10/2025 3:17:14 AM PDT
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Adder
(End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
To: SunkenCiv
Awesome images. Fascinating.
Very artistic bas relief.
Well within the biblical timeline too.
You’ve outdone yourself this time, SC!
To: SunkenCiv
The biggest guy in the relief does look like he is getting air from the goat bag thru a tube.
To: SunkenCiv
No bas relief of me on my Howdy Doody tube back in the 1950s. Sad.
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09/10/2025 4:13:00 AM PDT
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Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: SunkenCiv
In other news Hammurabi told his wife that he was running out to get a pack of ziggurats.
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09/10/2025 4:15:38 AM PDT
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Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: SunkenCiv
Some things never change, my unit used bivy bags and garbage bags, before that the 5 quart water bag was used in Vietnam.
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09/10/2025 4:24:07 AM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: Larry Lucido
“ Where did they find the inflatable goats?”
They found them on Euphrates Prime.”
To: Larry Lucido
Amazon..........................
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09/10/2025 5:13:23 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: MarlonRando
Syrians and Assyrians are not the same, although both are however Semitic. Ethnically Assyrian people still live in the Middle East.
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09/10/2025 6:27:06 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
Nothing new. I saw this decades ago in one of the science magazines. Some today try to make it look like early scuba diving. Is there a photo of the whole panel and not just a part?
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09/10/2025 6:41:34 AM PDT
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
( REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970S!)
To: Larry Lucido
That mall in New Jersey, right next to the Big Ball of Oil.
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09/10/2025 7:06:53 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: Vaquero
No bass relief of singing fish back then either.
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09/10/2025 7:09:00 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: Vaquero
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09/10/2025 7:09:17 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: Adder
It was at that moment. 😊 Ancient roadways (pathways, mostly just pounded down by constant use, not paved) tended to follow the lay of the land, and would converge at and diverge from known fording points.
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09/10/2025 7:11:22 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: ansel12
A former coworker was in the USN during the post-Korea 50s, and they were trained in how to tie various pieces of their uniforms with air captured inside to use as flotation, in case the ship was going down.
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09/10/2025 7:13:00 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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