Horses tamed earlier than thought

Hey, this helps the movie "10,000 B.C." to be less of the historical nightmare it is now.

Horses were domesticated much earlier than previously thought, according to a team of researchers.

They found evidence suggesting that the animals were used by a culture in northern Kazakhstan 5,500 years ago.

Until now, the earliest evidence of horse riding was metal parts from harnesses dating from the Bronze Age.

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