Scientists have discovered that around 4,200 years ago, a specific lineage of horses rapidly became dominant across Eurasia. The discovery was made through the analysis of hundreds of ancient horse ...

Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin for horses associated ...

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 ...

Taking a second look at pottery fragments excavated back in 2005 has rewritten a chapter of Mediterranean history. A team from the University of South Florida (USF) found traces of horse meat in ...

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 ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Alan Crowhurst / Getty Images Horseback riding was likely a common activity as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago, according to a provocative new study that looked at human skeletal remains for small ...

A new study reveals that the first true cavalry emerged among the Luwian and Aramean states, predating the Assyrian Empire by ...

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 ...