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Over 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 breath (i.redd.it)

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

As they had no access to the sea (?) maybe someone dreamed this up thinking it could work (but never really tested it).

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Count the number of bodies of water in this image: .

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

What?

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 19 hours ago

They had access to plenty of rivers so they would have had places where they could try this out, is what I wanted to say.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Ah ok, yeah I'm just wildly guessing here.

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