Seeing traces of horses with red sweat like blood

Ancient legends of superhuman horses with perspiration like blood of 'bloodshed' are on the verge of being demonstrated after a group of Chinese archaeologists found important relics.

Akhal-Teke Horses

The group of the Archaeological Institute of Shaanxi Province (North-West China) in September 2009 discovered the bones of 80 horses in two burial pits of the Tomb of Han Wu De, the seventh emperor of the West. Han (206 BC - 24 AD) in this province. But on February 21, the archaeological group just published the research results.

They said that each cremation pit was a large pit containing 20 small pits, each of which was 'guarded' by two horses and a terracotta warrior. Tests of the bones show that they are all adult male horses. DNA testing will soon be conducted in the hope of identifying the species.

The discovery of horse bones is valued at the Han Wu De tomb, which is revitalizing China's centuries-old legend of ' Code of Hemostasis '. According to legend, Han Wudang once hung up the post-prize for anyone who could find him a pure, ' code-protected bloody ', which is believed to be present in Central Asia but rare in China.

Today, that particular breed is identified as Akhal-Teke, one of the oldest and most original breeds.

Han Wudang is considered to be the person who wrote the earliest ' Blood Coding ' in Chinese history. In a poem, he called this ' heaven horse ' (heavenly horse). It is said that the horse that Genghis Khan is also a ' blood-protecting horse '.

Han Wu De is best known as the Chinese emperor who opened the famous Silk Road, the trade route linking Asia with Europe.

The construction of Han's tomb was started in 139 BC, just a year after he was enthroned at the age of 16, and took 53 years to complete. This tomb has more than 400 burial pits, more than the tomb of Qin Shihuang.