Its excellent preservation allowed researchers to gain more insight into the origins of equestrianism's role in medieval warfare. The saddle was made of wood and had iron stirrups.

The stirrups had to be comfortable and tough, because Mongols used them to ride in a way no one else rode. This pair of 1,100-year-old metal stirrups was unearthed from a Mongolian woman's grave ...

Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White, Jr., is one of those gems kept in circulation by Oxford University Press. It's one of a small pile of books I've been reading about medieval ...

A wooden frame saddle with iron stirrups that was stunningly preserved in an ancient tomb in Mongolia may be the oldest of its kind. The innovative saddle could give archaeologists clues to the ...

British historian Joseph Needham noted that "the stirrup, invented in China, revolutionized medieval European cavalry tactics." In the West, stirrups were often referred to as "Chinese boots." ...

Over the 170-year history of studying burials in northeast Russia, only 15 unburied burials included stirrups, with two of those instances in Gnezdilov, indicating a life spent with horses was ...