From grassland to grotto: A tale of two horses and a legendary road

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High in Kyrgyzstan's Ferghana mountain range sits Saimaluu-Tash – also known as Saimaly-Tash or Ayrymach Too – home to one of Central Asia's and the world's most stunning open-air galleries. Nearly 10,000 petroglyphs have been identified here, depicting horses, bulls, yaks and more, with the oldest dating back to the third to early-second millennia BC, the Eneolithic and Bronze ages. Thousands of kilometers away, in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, lies another treasure: the Mogao Grottoes. Carved into a cliffside at a key crossroads of the ancient Silk Road, these caves hold over a thousand years of Buddhist art – murals, sculptures and manuscripts that fused Eastern and Western influences into something unlike anywhere else on Earth. For centuries, they've captivated everyone who's seen them. So what could possibly connect a horse carved into rock at Saimaluu-Tash to the winged "heavenly horse" painted on the walls of Mogao? They might just be the same breed – the legen

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