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 help them breathe while submerged-a clever early example of diving gear.
by chrisgen19
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Sweet hat, Javier Bardem
I’m gonna say it. The carving looks like he’s riding a giant dick
This is nonsense because anyone who has done some play in the water will know that it would be impossible to put that size of soft surface air tank under water even 30cm deep! Not to mention staying under water hugging it…?! You would need 10kg of rocks on you to counter the lift force. Also the pressure of air trying to escape the goat skin sack would be impossible to hold with a mouth…
i you have ever scuba dived, you instantly know, that this picture is clearly fantasy…
More reddit nonsense
If that bag is the goat’s bladder, then he’s sucking on the…
If anyone tries this, they will quickly realize that this doesn’t work. Your lungs can’t inhale without a positive pressure from the air tube to offset the water pressure squeezing your torso.
Hence, the need for a pressurized tank and a regulator that increases air pressure as you dive deeper. If all we needed was an air filled sack, people would have been diving for millennia.
To say nothing of trying to submerge a big sack of uncompressed air.
No, that guy’s just swimming using the buoyancy of his massive penis
Not a diver. It’s a flotation device. They are crossing the river on top of the water. The posted image is a subsection of a larger relief that shows a horse fording the river. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/337185001
it looks like his sucking on a fish penis in the bottom image.
Sheep skin still outlawed for diving just so u kno
How can you take this picture so far out of context? It’s in the British Museum, and they used it to **CROSS** the river. It’s a floating device and yes, that would actually work. But diving with it definitely wouldn’t.
This is just not true take it down lol
Historians believe these reliefs show how the Assyrian military would use goatskins as flotation devices when crossing rivers for military campaigns. That’s why the rest of this relief that’s cropped out contains horses swimming and chariots/siege engines being floated across the river.
[https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/crossing-river-example-assyrian-ingenuity/](https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/crossing-river-example-assyrian-ingenuity/)
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There is absolutely no way this is true. You would need lots of weight to hope to bring that much air down. And then there’s absolutely no way they would be able to make a pouch which would seal against water pressure that high.
Helmet stays on during dive
It also shows gills so…
There is nothing interesting about AI slops that’s completely inaccurate, [chrisgen19](https://www.reddit.com/user/chrisgen19/).
It’s a floatation device, you dummy.
Wouldn’t the air just raise them to the surface?
This is actually evidence of the existence of ancient Capri Suns – something that archeologists long believed to be a myth
Now I wanna see 12 bagpippers coming out of the water in full garb rocking ACDC’s
It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)
I feel like this was an idea that never came to fruition.
I don’t see it
It was full of margarita.
AI SLOP ALWAYS HAS ‘ – ‘ IN IT. AI SLOP
Oh. I thought that was Aaron Rodgers smoking toad venom or some shit…
Yeah…that bag would make you float. No way you’re diving with that thing
I don’t know…. that guy in the original looks like he is just kidnapping a mermaid
They must have to counter balance it somehow, I can’t even dive at all I float like a cork XD
The horses and the boat are under water too! WOW, they definitely had some magic to do that, as even modern scientists don’t know how to swim on boat under water! Horses might had gills as well as lungs back then and evolution had later separated them to ground horses and sea horses shortly after. By the way they had put secret spells on goatskin bags to prevent air from it’s “pulling up from under water” power and how some guys have already explained water would like to leave the bag through the pipe, but ancient Assyrians were smart guys so they used similar technology for air as spill-proof bottles use for liquids! FASCINATING
https://preview.redd.it/lzlvri49ov1f1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b361f1c1d0c8d76fb9d9f2f2cdfa5e909cd1409
Nonsense.
haha their name has ass in it
[Not true at all.](http://www.aina.org/ata/20250223223305.htm)
No way that hat would stay on his head under water.
Thank you for this. I needed some new and refreshing historical facts and this hit the spot.
Anyone who has ever played on an inflatable pool toy will tell you this is BS. Won’t get that pigskin under the water without a weight belt. I recon it’s a goon/wine bag and old mate is pissed and fallen off his boat.
As a kid I remember seeing an episode of Zena, Warrior Princess where they escaped a sinking ship with one of these
When I was a kid swimming in the lake I found an empty gallon milk jug. I tucked it under my neck and curled in a ball and floated face down breathing that gallon of air for as long as I could. Breath in sink a bit. Breath out float a bit. And there was no way I could swim under water with as little as a gallon of air.