Archaeologists accidentally discovered the world's earliest horseback riders while studying skeletons found beneath 5,000-year-old burial mounds in Europe and Asia, a new study finds. The ancient ...

DNA detectives have discovered that half of the humans alive today have descended from a group that lived in what is now Ukraine 5,000 years ago. The research project, originally published in the Wall ...

Researchers interrogating the skeletal remains in kurgans—5,000-year-old burial mounds—found evidence that some of the Neolithic people were riding horses. The findings fill in a gap in two ...

Researchers believe they have found the earliest evidence of horseback riding, by the ancient Yamnaya people in Europe some 5,000 years ago. Their conclusions, based on an analysis of human skeletal ...

Banner image: A petroglyph of a horse in the Ferghana Valley of Kyrgyzstan. (Credit: William Taylor) As anyone who’s spent time in the saddle knows, riding a horse can be hard on your body. But can it ...

WASHINGTON — Who were the first people to ride horses? Researchers believe they have found the earliest evidence of horseback riding, by the ancient Yamnaya people in Europe some 5,000 years ago.

New archeological evidence suggests that one of the three ancient tribes of people that settled Europe in the Bronze Age spread cannabis all across Asia. These stoned age travelers influenced European ...

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Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. The biggest DNA study on ancient people rewrites European history. Modern Europeans were born in the Bronze Age after a large ...