When Shachar Rabinovitch, a 13-year-old Israeli girl, recently wrote to Dr. Marsha Levine asking for information about horses in ancient times, the British-US equine expert responded, “I’ll ...

During the late Paleolithic era, as far back as 30,000 years ago or more, ancient artists chose wild horses as their muse: Horses are the most commonly depicted animal in Eurasian cave art.

What inspired early humans to first ride a horse? Rather than build a time machine to ask our ancestors, archaeologists are ...

The Assyrian horses are smaller in size than the heavier breeds of Europe, but of "exquisite symmetry of form and grace of movement." (Xenophon) The ancient Assyrians were a people of extraordinary ...

Archaeologists found over 100 horse skeletons in Stuttgart, Germany. ... noted the town was one of the region's "most important Roman military sites" in ancient times.

Other researchers go further. Given that ancient human species at times lived in cold climes, the ancient horse gene map raises the possibility of recovering even more ancient human DNA, suggests ...

But going back further in horse evolutionary history, the 42,700-year-old ancient horse did have one copy of the dominant Dun gene, and was likely Dun-colored. The characteristic stripe along the ...

HELSINKI From a tiny fossil bone found in the frozen Yukon, scientists have deciphered the genetic code of an ancient horse about 700,000 years old — nearly 10 times older than any other animal ...

Talk about a mother of a discovery: Researchers in Germany have found the fossil of a 48-million-year-old pregnant horse relative, her fetus and bits of her preserved uterus as well.