Birch composite frame saddle from Urd Ulaan Uneet (top left) and artist’s reconstruction. (Image credit: P. Lopez Calle) In 2015, police notified archaeologists at the National Museum of ...

The leather horse saddle from the tomb at Yanghai in northwest China is dated to roughly between 700 and 400 B.C. and may be the oldest ever found. (Image credit: Patrick Wertmann) ...

While volunteering at the Museum of North Idaho recently, I helped several staff members bring exhibit items to the second ...

Two of the oldest are bronze horses from 1191–1148 B.C., wearing simple mats rather than saddles. A bronze mirror dating from 770 to 256 B.C. features a decorative rider on a horse with a saddle ...