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SCYTHIAN CAVALRY: HORSE HEADS AND HARNESS AND HORNS…OH, MY!
Painter of Munich: By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93548087 So, have any horse remains actually been found in the Scythian kurgans ? The short answer is “Yes”. The longer answer is “Wow!” Not only have large burials yielded piles of horse bones; but a circle of twenty-two horse skulls wreathed the perimeter of one kurgan. Of course, that find was small pickings compared to what awaited archaeologists at the famous Pazyryk I site. At Pazyryk I, archaeologists discovered a burial of ten golden horses. (Not horses made of gold; palominos). This shade was highly prized in antiquity; maybe it was rarer then. Their modern descendants are famous in equine circles as the “Turkmen horse”. (I’ve never heard of it before, but then I don’t run with the “horsey set”). Other types found in the grave sprang from the crossbreeding of a small, hardy, local variety with a Central Asian breed. Although all the manes and eyebrows we...
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