October
13
/ 2020
Researchers believe that they have found the oldest balls ever uncovered in Eurasia. The set of leather balls were found in graves of Central Asian horse riders in northern China. They are offering evidence that ball games were played some 3000 years ago. It is believed that not only were ball games important but played a role in the rise of Central Asian equestrian societies. The amazing discovery was made during excavations of a burial site near Turfan in Northern China, known as Yanghai. According to the New Scientist ‘The Yanghai cemetery, which contains more than 500, was in use between about 3200 and 1850 years ago’. Many of those interred there were horsemen, associating it with an equestrian society
