The horses in this burial site belonged to a Roman cavalry unit, or 'Ala,' stationed at Hallschlag in the 2nd century AD.

While preparing for construction of a housing development in Stuttgart, Germany, archaeologists uncovered an ancient Roman ...

Roughly 1,800 years ago, a Roman cavalry horse died of unknown causes. The animal’s human rider, a Roman soldier, buried the creature in a shallow grave. As a parting gift, the soldier tucked a few ...

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit.

The site, which likely once housed a roman cavalry unit, shows evidence of the respect soldiers had for their mounts.

“The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse” is a saying that holds true for the Roman Empire, which expanded ...

The discovery of a Roman horses’ graveyard shows a soldier’s grief at the loss of his equine partner, 1,800 years later. An excavation carried out by the state office for monument preservation (LAD) ...

Archaeologists from the State Office for Monument Preservation of the Stuttgart Regional Council have found the remains of ...

These horse skeletons belonged to a Roman cavalry unit stationed at Hallschlag. Due to a new construction project undertaken by the Stuttgart Housing and Urban Development Company (SWSG ...

Following painstaking conservation and reassembly of broken parts it is now the centrepiece of the Roman gallery in Lancaster City Museum, part of Lancashire County Museum Service.