Assyria is an ancient state that was located on the territory of modern Iraq. A large number of Assyrian bas-reliefs have survived, depicting very strange mechanisms. For them, the term "Assyrian ram" or the Assyrian "tank" was coined - and the tank is enclosed in quotation marks. This is a kind of Assyrian weapon, similar to modern tanks or armored personnel carriers, with 4 or 6 wheels. Historians believe that it was moved by horses or donkeys. However, none of the bas-reliefs depicts an animal, and no one is trying to explain this riddle in the scientific world. Only an even more ridiculous version appeared, which sounds like this: "It is assumed that they had poles in the back, to which they tied draft animals for their movement." However, again, on the bas-reliefs with tanks, there are no animals either in front or behind,while in the images of ordinary Assyrian carts there are always horses or donkeys.
There is also a version that the mysterious mechanism was overclocked by hand, and it moved by inertia, but in some bas-reliefs the Assyrian ram is climbing uphill, which suggests that it clearly had some kind of engine. It is also believed that this Assyrian mysterious weapon did not shoot, but was used to ram the fortress walls. Look for yourself at these bas-reliefs and see that the Assyrian tank is a tank without quotes.
N. Trubinovskaya