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The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, never one to shrink from a challenge, visited Gobustan in Azerbaijan for two decades to prove his theory that the ancestors of today’s Scandinavians left behi…

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Even the idlest stroller will be awestruck by the beauty of Cairo’s City of the Dead. Yet this gem of 14th and 15th century architecture, a  Unesco World Heritage site,  leaves the visitor wonderin…

300,000-year-old genes are oldest ever recovered from open-air site

The pioneering work of a 16th-century Polish geographer radically transformed Renaissance understandings of Europe's eastern frontiers, paving the way for Russia's later inclusion in the congress of E...

University of South Florida

Jean-Luis Gouraud, author of numerous works on horses and horsemanship, is one of Europe’s most respected equine experts. He travelled on horseback between Paris and Moscow. We had a coffee together ...

Horses with genomic edits to make them run faster have been banned from polo, but a zoo of CRISPR-edited animals is gaining acceptance in agriculture.

“Untranslatable”, concluded the erudite, 17th-century Jesuit missionaries, referring to the glorious corpus of Chinese poetry. While they acknowledged that poetry played an outsized role in Chinese…

DNA analysis reveals how ancient horse breeding prioritized calm temperament before selecting for rideable bodies.

Argentina, widely regarded as the global capital of polo, has welcomed cloning and other breeding innovations. But CRISPR is different – for now.

Horsepower revolutionized human history through enhanced mobility, transport, and warfare. However, the suite of biological traits that reshaped horses during domestication remains unclear. We scanned...