Horses Archive

Plantar (underneath) view of feet of a four-toed tapir (left) and a one-toed horse (right) by Nuria Melisa Morales-García. In the middle, a reconstruction of the extinct three-toed horse Hipparion, by Karolina Suchan-Okulska. Overall design by Morales-García.

Modern Horses Have Lost Their Additional Toes, Scientists Confirm

AncientPages.com | June 21, 2023

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to researchers. The animals,

Archaeology

Ancient Burials Of World’s First Horse Riders Found Near The Black Sea

AncientPages.com | March 3, 2023

Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered evidence of horse riding by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans, which were between 4,500

Archaeology

First Solid Scientific Evidence That Vikings Brought Animals To Britain

AncientPages.com | February 1, 2023

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found what they say is the first solid scientific evidence suggesting that Vikings crossed the North Sea to Britain with dogs

Archaeology

Livestock And Dairying Led To Dramatic Social Changes In Ancient Mongolia – New Study

AncientPages.com | May 11, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The movement of herders and livestock into the eastern steppe is of great interest to researchers, but few scholars have linked the introduction

Survivors Of The latest Ice Age Thrived Near The Sea Of Galilee 23,000 Years Ago

Archaeology

Ancient Knowledge About Horse Taming Is Rewriting Our Picture Of The Past

AncientPages.com | January 27, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Horses have been intrinsically entwined with human history for the past five millennia, acting as an early means of rapid transport and playing

Herd of Sorraia , Portuguese breed whose primitive type is also close to the first domestic horses.

Archaeology

Use Of Horses In the Bronze Age – New Facts

AncientPages.com | July 14, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The use of horses, their domestication, and spread have been long-debated. Until, now, there was no conclusive evidence that the domesticated horse came

Illustrator Jay H. Matternes captured a scene from the Miocene Period as an ancient species of horse called Parahippus, lower right, interacts with other carnivores and herbivores of the time. Illustration/Jay H. Matternes/U.S. Department of the Interior/Wikimedia Commons

Archaeology

Horses In Florida Did Not Travel Far Distances – New Study Suggests

AncientPages.com | January 3, 2019

AncientPages.com - Florida was something of a horse paradise 5 million years ago, providing everything horses could want in a relatively small area, a new geochemical analysis of fossils suggests.

Celtic Mythology

Epona – One Of The Oldest And Widely Known Celtic Deities

AncientPages.com | February 26, 2018

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Epona is the Gaulish goddess of horses, donkeys, and mules. She was one of the oldest and most notable Celtic deities and was worshiped

Horses Skinfaxi And Hrímfaxi - Bringers Of Light And Darkness To Earth In Norse Mythology

Horses Skinfaxi And Hrimfaxi – Bringers Of Light And Darkness To Earth In Norse Mythology

AncientPages.com | December 16, 2017

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Horses played an important role in Norse mythology, and God Odin's horse Sleipnir is most famous. Still, without magnificent horses like Skinfaxi (Shining