{"id":45709,"date":"2025-01-22T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ehorses.com\/magazine\/?post_type=horse-breed&p=45709"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:37:44","slug":"arabian-horse","status":"publish","type":"horse-breed","link":"https:\/\/www.ehorses.com\/magazine\/horse-breed\/arabian-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabian Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Arabian Horse is one of the most admired horse breeds in the world. The beauty and grace of these lovely animals have captured the hearts of horse enthusiasts everywhere. Part of their undoubted attraction is the collection of wonderful tales that have gathered around these captivating horses. The true story of their origins is equally interesting, and often, even more exciting.<\/strong><\/p>

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History and a Mystery: the Origins of the Arabian Horses<\/h2>

One of the key questions about the Arabian Horse is whether it is an Arab Horse, that is to say, belonging to the Arab people, or an Arabian Horse from the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula<\/b>. Many people believe that it is an extremely ancient breed that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. It is said, for example, that the horses of the kings <\/b>of ancient Egypt look very similar to the modern Arabian Horse. Images of kings such as Tutankhamun and Ramesses II show them in their chariots driving lovely horses<\/b> with tails carried high like modern Arabians.\u00a0<\/p>

However, not all the horses depicted in Egyptian imagery look <\/b>like this. Scholars now argue that the similarity of the ancient horses to the modern ones is not proof of continuity. Since the earliest Egyptians had no horses at all, and horses only appear in imagery in any numbers from the early Eighteenth Dynasty onwards, horses were not indigenous to Egypt<\/b>. They were traded and possibly captured during wars with other people. This included the war with the Hyksos who ruled in the Egyptian Delta for a period of some 400 years, and who did have horses. Images in Egypt also show traders bringing horses <\/b>to this ancient land. These traders were most likely bringing them from fertile areas in parts of Syria, and even further off to the north and east.\u00a0<\/p>

At this time, and right into the Roman period, there is no evidence for horses in the Arabian Peninsula, which was mostly unpopulated<\/b>. Indeed, the Roman name for it: Arabia Deserta, provides the clue. The Roman writer Strabo pointed out that there were no horses known in this region. The Romans classified many breeds by their place <\/b>of origin, such as the Parthian, Gallic, Libyan, and Greek. There are no references to an Arabian Horse. Where, then, did the Arabian, or Arab Horse come from?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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