@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-21 month agoOver 3,000 years ago the Assyrians developed a remarkably advanced underwater technique, as illustrated in this ancient relief. It shows Assyrian soldiers using goatskin bags filled with air to breathi.redd.itimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1173
arrow-up1173imageOver 3,000 years ago the Assyrians developed a remarkably advanced underwater technique, as illustrated in this ancient relief. It shows Assyrian soldiers using goatskin bags filled with air to breathi.redd.it@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-21 month agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•1 month agoTo push the absurd narrative that these were essentially scuba tanks for underwater swimming and not flotation devices. Not going to get many clicks with a real image.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoYup It makes no sense from a materials perspective. How would they handcraft an air and water tight goat skin bag with a tube coming out of it? And what’s the tube made of? And all this effort for what, 3 lungfuls of air.
To push the absurd narrative that these were essentially scuba tanks for underwater swimming and not flotation devices.
Not going to get many clicks with a real image.
Yup It makes no sense from a materials perspective. How would they handcraft an air and water tight goat skin bag with a tube coming out of it? And what’s the tube made of? And all this effort for what, 3 lungfuls of air.