Painted saddle found in Mongolian tomb is oldest of its kind
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate deputation . Here ’s how it works . A wooden frame saddleback with iron stirrups that was spectacularly preserved in an ancient tomb in Mongolia may be the oldest of its form . The innovational saddleback could give archaeologists clues to the blood of medieval mounted warfare . In a field put out today ( Dec. 8) in the journalAntiquity , an outside team of archaeologists described the paint saddle , which was antecedently pillage from a cave entombment ....