Posts Tagged ‘horse’

3500 more years of horses

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Interesting article from Reuters: “Saudi Arabia discovers 9,000 year-old civilization.”

Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country’s antiquities expert said Wednesday.

The conventional wisdom is that horses were domesticated 5,500 years ago in Central Asia.