Indigenous Boats

This is the second in a series of posts on ancient boat iconography at the British Museum. The first post looked at ancient Egyptian boat m...

In the prior post we examined the watercraft of the Madan or Marsh Arabs . Now we'll look at how the Madan used those boats -- parti...

The Madan, or Marsh Arabs of Iraq, depended heavily upon their boats, including canoes like this one under construction. Note the heavy...