Hippologia

Fish eating horses in Macedonia of the 5th-6th century BCE (click for the full paper in PDF format)

Archaeological excavations at Sindos near Thessaloniki, Greece, revealed the presence of horses buried with heroes in a human cemetery. Stable isotope analysis of their skeletal remains revealed that approximately 20-22% of their food was of fish origin. This may sound unbelievable, however Herodotus describing the camping of Xerxes’ troops in the area clearly mentioned the fact that the locals fed fish to their horses…Thus the recent discovery confirmed that the old historian was simply reporting the truth as he had actually spent some time in northern Greece.

They Didn’t Shoot Horses  (click for the full paper in PDF format)

 Recent discoveries from archaeological excavations at Sindos near Thessaloniki revealed common burials of horses with heroes, an old burial habit first reported by Homer [Iliad 23.171]. Among five horses there was a mare with a broken metacarpal bone [canon bone] that was treated successfully! It seems ancient Greeks didn’t shoot horses with fractures in the 5th-6th c. BCE.     Click here for the full paper in PDF format

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