this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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Illustrations of history

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Damn! Those animals can draw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Those Roman horses were excellent artists! They even put little people in the carts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This should be marked NSFW. That last horse looks a little horny

[–] Tar_alcaran 3 points 1 day ago

The scale is a bit weird on these.

The one-person chariot-like carriage is two horses wide, and these horses must be pressed against each other to squeeze between there. Horses do NOT enjoy that at all.

But the wagons are wider... But at the same time also two horses wide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The last cart is drawn by oxes (unless it was a special horse breed with horns) and all of the sudden, I have the melody from the simple merchant in Asterix the Gaul stuck in my head.

Astérix : Marchand de Boeuf (YouTube)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Actually, I consider myself a bit of an expert in these matters, and I can assure you all of the carts were drawn by a human.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, you're correct, I didn't catch that XD

[–] xiao 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder what they used at the time to reduce shocks and other mechanical vibrations

[–] Tar_alcaran 2 points 1 day ago