A woman buried more than 2,400 years ago in what’s now northwestern China has galloped into a scientific afterlife atop the earliest directly dated horseback riding saddle. Researchers have ...
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Found in the grave of a Chinese horsewoman, an ancient leather saddle surprised archaeologists—both with its age and the identity of its owner. Buried thousands of years ago, the saddle found at ...