What it tells us about the past: This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for scuba ...

This 3,000-year-old artifact has turned the world of archaeological understanding on its head - or at least, that's what social media would have us believe. Housed in the British Museum's Northwest ...

Gypsum wall panel relief: showing the crossing of a river. Horses swim, led by grooms, while a chariot, bed and jar are carried on coracles. Figures are shown complete and not half submerged which is ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.