[SunkenCiv]

A carved panel from ancient Mesopotamia depicts soldiers swimming across a river

Image credit: Alamy

[Larry Lucido]

Where did they find the inflatable goats?

[MarlonRando]

Interesting to note, these folks were brilliant back then. Steve Jobs’ dad was Syrian.

[Adder]

So is that a sea horse?

[one guy in new jersey]

Awesome images. Fascinating.

Very artistic bas relief.

Well within the biblical timeline too.

You’ve outdone yourself this time, SC!

[Doctor Congo]

The biggest guy in the relief does look like he is getting air from the goat bag thru a tube.

[Vaquero]

No bas relief of me on my Howdy Doody tube back in the 1950s. Sad.

[Vaquero]

In other news Hammurabi told his wife that he was running out to get a pack of ziggurats.

[ansel12]

Some things never change, my unit used bivy bags and garbage bags, before that the 5 quart water bag was used in Vietnam.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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?

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks, SunkenCiv.

[Cronos]

Last week I finished a book by Eckhart Frahm on the Rose and fall of Assyria.

Very good book