When the Cincinnati Art Museum’s East Asian art curator Hou-mei Sung questioned the authenticity of a decorative tassel on an ancient horse sculpture, she turned to the University of Cincinnati ...

A 1,300-year-old sculpture of a dancing horse — a precious relic of China’s Tang dynasty — captured an ancient tradition of trained horses performing for emperors.

Sung has seen many examples of ancient sculptures paying tribute to the dancing horses that performed for emperors as far back as 202 B.C. But no others have forehead tassels, she said. Was it ...

On horses in art, see Sidney David Markman, The Horse in Greek Art (New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969). Harold B. Barclay, The Role of the Horse in Man's Culture (London: J.A. Allen, 1980): 57. Robert ...

After nearly a decade of legal wrangling, a piece of ancient Roman sculpture worth almost U.S. $2 million has been unveiled to the public for the first time. The 28-pound fragment is a life-size ...

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a ...

An engaging and meticulously rendered image of a man attired in jaunty riding apparel and sitting atop a horse is on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The […] ...

Ancient cave paintings that seemed to depict make-believe white-spotted horses might have been drawn from real life, scientists now find. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit ...

During the late Paleolithic era, as far back as 30,000 years ago or more, ancient artists chose wild horses as their muse: Horses are the most commonly depicted animal in Eurasian cave art.

Archaeologists were working on “La Place,” a medieval northern city gate that was demolished in the 1700s, when they found a large, carved stone, according to a June 27 news release from the French ...