Horse Mummification in Ancient Egypt | Nature
A discovery of what is thought to be the earliest known example of the mummification of a horse has recently been made on the hill of Sheikh Abdel Kurneh, on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes...
Incredibly Preserved, 40,000-Year-Old Extinct Baby Horse Has …
2018年8月24日 · Scientists in Siberia have made an extraordinary find: the fossilised remains of an extinct baby Palaeolithic horse, in almost perfect condition. Dug out from the permafrost in Siberia's Batagaika crater - AKA the "Doorway to the Underworld" - the tiny colt is so beautifully preserved, it looks like it could be sleeping. But the equine died a ...
Ancient horse DNA reveals gene flow between Eurasian and …
2021年5月18日 · A new study of ancient DNA from horse fossils found in North America and Eurasia shows that horse populations on the two continents remained connected through the Bering Land Bridge, moving back and forth and interbreeding multiple times over hundreds of thousands of years.
A study of a frozen mummy of a wild horse from the Holocene
2018年3月17日 · The paper presents a description of a rare finding of the partial frozen corpse of the Yukagir horse. Discovered from thawing deposits in northern East Siberia (Yakutia, Russia), its age is confirmed to be Mid-Holocene (about 4600 BP). The mummy had a preserved head with the neck and the back of the torso with the legs and tail.
Siberian Permafrost Reveals Perfectly Preserved Ice-Age Baby Horse
2018年8月24日 · Paleontologists found the mummified body of the young horse inside the 328-foot-deep (100 meters) Batagaika crater during an expedition to Yakutia in eastern Siberia. The researchers announced...
This Plan to Bring Back an Extinct Ice-Age Horse Species Is an …
2018年9月6日 · A team of scientists in Siberia is hopeful that a mummified 40,000-year-old baby horse can provide critical genetic material for cloning the extinct ice-age species.
MUMMIFIED HORSES ARE FOUND IN EGYPT; Rare ... - The New York Times
-- Egypt's storehouse of antiquities which revealed to the world the marvelous artistry of Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb, and last year the wonderful art of King Seneferu, the first Pharaoh of Egypt, has...
Horses in Ancient Egypt: Their Roles and Significance
2022年1月11日 · Examples within ancient Egyptian literature show that Egyptian pharaohs were interested in horses for ceremonial and combat purposes, going so far as placing mummified horses in tombs on the west banks of the Nile. The horse was not indigenous to ancient Egypt, and the precise date of the domestication of the horse in Egypt is unknown.
Photos: Perfectly Preserved Baby Horse Unearthed in Siberian Permafrost
2019年4月18日 · Inside the Batagaika crater in Yakutia, scientists made a remarkable discovery: permafrost melt revealed a perfectly-preserved foal mummy. The two-month-old foal even had perfectly preserved hair....
Morphometric study of the skull of a Late Pleistocene mummy of …
2012年1月1日 · The skull of a mummy horse from the Late Pleistocene of the western Chukchi Peninsula is described. This is the seventh horse mummy recorded during the past 150 years in the Pleistocene...