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The Scythians Had so Many Horses that They Allowed Themselves the Luxury of Burying Healthy Specimens and in Their Physical Fullness with Fallen Warriors.
A team of Russian archaeologists and zoologists has managed to unravel, for the first time with such extensive material, the age and sex of the horses that the Scythians sacrificed and buried in their funerary tumules more than 2,300 years ago. The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, has focused on [...]
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A team of Russian archaeologists and zoologists has managed to unravel, for the first time with such extensive material, the age and sex of the horses that the Scythians sacrificed and buried in their funerary tumules more than 2,300 years ago. The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, has focused on [...]