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Assyrian swimmers: 2,900-year-old carving of soldiers using 'floaties' to cross a river

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The gypsum panel is one of several excavated in the 1840s from the Northwest Palace of Nimrud .

It was built on the Tigris River around 865 B.C. on the orders of King Ashurnasirpal II.

The two -dimensionality of the perspective is typical in Assyrian art.

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