We've Been Riding Horses for 5,500 Years

New scientific research pushes back the date of the first recorded human uses of horses more than 1,000 years. University of Exeter scientist Alan Outram and his team have found in Kazakhstan evidences that the native Botai culture had been using horses as beasts of burden and sources of milk... [ read more >> ]

Horses were first domesticated some 5,500 years ago

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Horses were first domesticated some 5,500 years ago