1,600-Year-Old Wooden Saddle Examined

BARNAUL, RUSSIA—According to a Horsetalk.co.nz report, Nikolai Seregin of Altai State University and his colleagues have studied a completely preserved wooden saddle and other equestrian items discovered in 2015 at Urd Ulaan Uneet, a cave burial in Mongolia located some 4,300 feet above sea level. Seregin and his team members suggest that the burial, which they dated from the middle of the fourth century to the fifth century A.D., belonged to the nomadic Rouran people, who were known