The “extraordinary” discovery was made outside the city walls, in Civita Giuliana to the north of Pompeii proper, the site’s directorsย announcedย this week.
on the short side by today’s standards, but given that horses were probably smaller at the time, the experts say it would have been exceptionally large for its time.
While the skeletons of donkeys and mules have been found at Pompeii, in a stable attached to the Casa dei Casti Amanti (‘House of the Chaste Lovers’), it’s the first time archaeologists have unearthed the complete outline of a horse.