Lil Nabû-zēr-kitti-lišir woulda killed for better toys
A carriage without a horse? Kids and their stupid fantasy toys.
Isn’t it a chariot?
I think so. Our automotive-prone minds see it pointing this way and see a car, but that’s probably the back.
Allow them to be bored, out of it comes creativity. We used to have one day a week without any tech and they build dens in the woods, built a raft for the river and came back soaking wet, they played D&D with pen and paper. You have to give them the freedom to be bored, get filthy, get lost, covered in art stuff. Also, that kid from Mesopotamia probably had chores anytime he looked bored.
I was gonna say “the timeless need to keep the kids quiet”… but I bet there was some ancient Mesopotamian nerd who made dozens of these and built a little model city and was like: one day the the wagons will drive themselves and there’ll be roads everywhere and the people will live in tall buildings and fly in the sky…
Ancient Mesopotamian nerd, I salute you!
Car
I wonder what the scale is, because to me it looks like it was some kind of scooter
