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 ...

Horses didn’t just change how people traveled. They rewired the course of civilization. Yet scientists have always puzzled ...

Ancient horse breeds across Asia, Europe, and North Africa carry centuries-old bloodlines shaped by their landscapes. From ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People have collected fossil horses throughout North America for centuries. Florida Museum/Mary Warrick Many people assume that ...

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 ...

Ancient Assyria occupied parts of the present countries of Iraq, Lebanon, and Turkey, a country about 350 miles long, by 300 miles wide... not very big, according to our standards, but immensely ...

An archaeological dig in France uncovered over two dozen dead horses and left researchers with a puzzling mystery. The excavation, located in Villedieu-sur-Indre in Central France, uncovered several ...

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 ...

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 ...

The horse had arthritis when it died. It is possible, too, that it had bone cancer in one ankle. That can happen to any horse once it gets to be a certain age. This one is nearly 16,000 years old.