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Interesting Facts & Trivia
29 - QUESTION: What was a prized possession in Eurasia, and was also used for transport and in warfare for 5,000 years?
Answer: Horses.
Horses were used as tributes and in the exchange of gifts, in addition to being valued for military and imperial uses. Turkic peoples of Central Asia revered their horses. Since thousands of years, the Akhal-Teke horses, have been honored by the peoples of Asia. Archeological excavations in Turkmenistan and in high elevation frozen graves in the Pazyryk kurgans have uncovered remains of horses believed to be related to the Akhal-Teke, buried with their masters at the time of the Scythians.