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 ...

However, why the horse loomed so large in ancient ... has been compiling a database of European Stone Age (or Palaeolithic) art. Today that database contains information on more than 4700 drawings ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ... been depicting horses for thousands of years, and the curators had to draw lines, Salomé says. They decided to limit themselves to Europe and then ...

Some of the oldest myths in the Indo-European tradition concern the existence of supernatural or divine horses. The earliest text in Sanskrit, or indeed any Indo-European language—the family ...

Scientists examined the teeth of horses buried in mediaeval and Tudor times The animals, sourced from across Europe specifically for their height and strength, were status symbols in the 14th ...