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StekenDeluxe t1_jbdqudx wrote

Reply to comment by Sniffy4 in Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests by Magister_Xehanort

Believe it or not, but the Egyptian horses at that battle were - at the time - actually considered to be quite big!

Earlier pharaohs had to make do with an even smaller breed, the Central Asian Akhal-Teke. Ye olde Egyptians didn't get their hands on thoroughbred ("pur-sang") Arabian horses until the reigns of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II.

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