Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of over 100 buried horses dating back to ancient Rome – but the skeletons weren't found in Italy. The excavation took place at Bad Cannstatt, a borough ...

New research into ancient Mongolian burial mounds, known as khirigsuurs, is challenging long-held assumptions about the scale of communal feasting that took place at these monumental sites during the ...

Kneeling in the chalky dirt of southern Germany, an archaeologist carefully dusted off yet another skeleton of yet another horse. What else would one expect in a massive ancient Roman cemetery for ...

A ninth-century tomb in modern-day Siberia revealed the remains of 18 horses and ties to the Scythian culture. Experts have long struggled to solidify the origins of the Scythians, thanks to their ...

In our world today, it’s pretty unusual to see a horse riding down the street. In most cities and towns around the world, horses have retreated to the edges of daily life – appearing more often in ...

Horsepower profoundly shaped human societies - altering the way people moved around, traded goods, communicated, farmed and fought. And while the history of the combustion engines that eventually ...

Archaeologists excavated a construction site in Stuttgart and found an ancient Roman graveyard with over 100 military horses, officials said. Photo from the State Office for Monument Preservation in ...