When the Cincinnati Art Museum’s East Asian art curator Hou-mei Sung questioned the authenticity of a decorative tassel on an ancient horse sculpture, she turned to the University of Cincinnati ...

A 1,300-year-old sculpture of a dancing horse — a precious relic of China’s Tang dynasty — captured an ancient tradition of trained horses performing for emperors.

Sung has seen many examples of ancient sculptures paying tribute to the dancing horses that performed for emperors as far back as 202 B.C. But no others have forehead tassels, she said. Was it ...

On horses in art, see Sidney David Markman, The Horse in Greek Art (New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969). Harold B. Barclay, The Role of the Horse in Man's Culture (London: J.A. Allen, 1980): 57. Robert ...

‘The Horse in Ancient Greek Art’ Review: An Ode to the Noble Steed. An equestrian trail though the complex world of Ancient Greek pottery, where the animal held high cultural significance. By .

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a ...

An engaging and meticulously rendered image of a man attired in jaunty riding apparel and sitting atop a horse is on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The […] ...

Archaeologists were working on “La Place,” a medieval northern city gate that was demolished in the 1700s, when they found a ...

During the late Paleolithic era, as far back as 30,000 years ago or more, ancient artists chose wild horses as their muse: Horses are the most commonly depicted animal in Eurasian cave art.

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit. These remains are dated to the second century A.D.