The first recorded chariot race in the ancient Olympics was in about 680 BC. There were races with two and four horses. The Olympia hippodrome was of a size to allow 60 chariots to race at once.

She won the four-horse chariot race with her team in two consecutive Olympics. Her victories have inspired women all over Greece to start taking part in the horse events. The other events are a ...

At the Xiazhan ruins site, the sacrificial pit reveals a unique burial practice in which one chariot and four horses were placed together inside a large wooden box, making it different from the ...