New genetic evidence suggests "dappled" horses depicted in European cave art were inspired by real life, and are less symbolic than previously thought. The findings are published in the ...

bulls and horses adorning the walls of France’s Lascaux Cave. Roughly 17,000 years old, the paintings are Europe’s most famous cave art, but hardly the oldest. This week archaeologists ...

Bühler, for instance, has used this method to study the Avars: horse-riding nomads from the Asian steppes who rode west to rule swathes of central and eastern Europe in the early Middle Ages.