KaraKum Stud Blog | Interesting exhibition about Central Asian equestrian history

Tuesday 13th, March 2007

Interesting exhibition about Central Asian equestrian history 03/13/2007 11:17 AM

"For the first time in the United States are objects from the Berel Kurgan, where archaeologists found the remains of two nobles, buried with 13 saddled and bridled horses, sacrificed 2300 years ago to serve them in the afterlife. Among the ornaments discovered was a life-size set of ibex horns meant to be worn on a horse’s head."

read more here
http://www.kazakhembus.com/101006.html

I'd really love to go there but the exhibition is only open til April 15!

Comments :

1. Leonid03/13/2007 12:19:11
Homepage: http://www.shael-teke.com

There are not winged horses, they are winged goats.

2. Jessica03/13/2007 12:48:57

When you look at the pictures the first time I agree that the animals look a little bit like bird-goat-horse crosses but in the text they claim the ibex horns mounted as decorations for horses where found in the burial mounds so I guess the gold figures are winged horses with ibex horns!

3. Heather03/14/2007 09:36:35

How interesting. Too bad it's all the way out on the west coast. I just returned home EARLY this morning on the last leg of our first flight with a baby, and while she really was GREAT, I'm not ready to take on flying to Cali just this moment...

4. Carolyn03/19/2007 16:15:12

If those are horses they are indeed the strangest horses I have ever seen!
Wish I could get down to Cali to check the exhibit out...oh well.

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