DAI<p>🚣♂️ In 2017, <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/Orient_DAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orient_DAI</span></a> and partners discovered a reed-and-bitumen boat buried in the sands outside <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/Uruk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Uruk</span></a> in modern-day Iraq.</p><p>💡 Now, thanks to <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/OSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OSL</span></a> dating of sand grains inside, we know it sailed about 3,600 years ago!</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/@elisecutts" class="u-url mention">@<span>elisecutts</span></a></span> reports for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@SciMag" class="u-url mention">@<span>SciMag</span></a></span> on the results presented at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@EuroGeosciences" class="u-url mention">@<span>EuroGeosciences</span></a></span>: </p><p>🏺 <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-mariners-used-boat-crisscross-mesopotamian-canals" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/an</span><span class="invisible">cient-mariners-used-boat-crisscross-mesopotamian-canals</span></a></p>