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This gypsum wall panel depicts two female courtiers in front of a table, on which the royal horse bridle has been placed. Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Ashurbanipal II, 660-650 BCE. From the North Palace at Nineveh, Mesopotamia, modern-day...

Bronze and ivory horse breastplate with the Gorgon's head. From Ruvo, Italy, dated to the end of the 6th century BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Photo taken at the "Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth" exhibition at Palazzo...

The rider wears a tunic and trousers in the Persian fashion. He probably formed part of a hunting scene on one of the ledges around the podium. The upper part of the rider (now lost) was carved from a separate piece of marble and attached...

This ivory piece is part of the so-called "equestrian bridle-harness ornaments". It represents the lower part of a hinged frontlet, virtually complete. Most of the hinges and much of the iron pin have survived. A figure of the Egyptian...

The image is to be found in Manuscript AM 738 4to or Edda oblongata, c. 1680 CE. This illustrated copy of the Prose Edda contains 23 drawings of subjects from Norse mythology.

The outline is incised and then roughly cut round. A bridle is indicated and, on the extreme left, perhaps the knee of the rider. Presented by the Committee of the British School at Athens. Greek, about 500 BCE. From the Sanctuary of Artemis...

These gilded silver ornaments were strung around the neck of horses owned by aristocratic Roman families, as a way of displaying wealth and prestige. Four complete and two partial sets were found within the Esquiline Treasure. They are the...

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe. The leader of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, the great Sioux nation, is a man with a vision. A Great Urgency: To All World Religious and Spiritual...

In 1983 CE, an almost intact horse-powered boat or ferry was discovered in Burlington Bay. Known as the Burlington Bay Horse Ferry, it is an example of the type of vessel that was a popular form of transportation across the lake between Vermont...

Henry Lee III (1756-1818), more commonly known by his nickname 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee, was a cavalry officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) and a politician who served as the ninth Governor of Virginia...