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 ...

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 ...

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

Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. ... But their analysis of 475 ancient horse genomes showed a notable change around 4,200 years ago.

That expanded by 30 times the number of sequenced Ice Age horse genomes known to science from two to more than 60. The genetic information in those bones revealed a lost “Arctic highway” that ...

Archaeologists uncover ancient Roman horse cemetery with over 100 horses in Stuttgart. ... "Finding such a large horse cemetery from Roman times is very rare," she told Live Science.

These 28 Horses Were Buried in an Ancient Mass Grave. ... Researchers think the equines were all buried at the same time—and that they may have been casualties of the Gallic Wars.

These ancient peoples, the group argued, showed evidence of wear and tear in their skeletons that likely came from riding horses. Hips can lie. But, in the new study, Hosek and Taylor argue that the ...