Silk Roads and Warhorses: Inside the Silk Road Horse Trade Sep 23, 2026 Zachary Leyden An emperor can command silk by the warehouse. He cannot command pasture. For the better part of two thousand years, that mismatch drove the silk road horse trade: settled empires rich in cloth, grain,... History of Horsemanship Horses & Human History Read more
Przewalski's Horse: The Last Wild Horse, With an Asterisk Sep 3, 2026 Zachary Leyden Stand next to a Przewalski’s horse and it looks like a horse drawn from memory of a much older world. It is stocky and short-legged, dun-colored, with a stiff upright mane that stands like a brush rat... History of Horsemanship Horses & Human History Read more
Horses in North America: The History of a Long Round Trip Aug 14, 2026 Zachary Leyden Dig in the right hillside in Wyoming or Nebraska and you can hold the tooth of a horse that died tens of millions of years before any human saw one. The horse is not an import to this continent. It is... History of Horsemanship Horses & Human History Read more
Where the Horse Was Tamed: The Steppe and the Shifting Evidence Jul 25, 2026 Zachary Leyden Somewhere on the grasslands of Eurasia, thousands of years ago, a person and a horse arrived at an arrangement that would remake human history. We cannot point to the spot on a map with confidence, an... History of Horsemanship Horses & Human History Read more
