Without a horse, there would never have been a pants

In Europe, until the end of Antiquity, the pants were considered barbaric, a sign of backward or otherness.This is still worth today in certain parts of the world.And even in some regions of Europe, in Scotland or in certain parts of the Balkans, men were and are always proud to be able to display their status by carrying dresses.

Nomadic horse -drawn peoples

Pants are not a European invention.The researchers specializing in antiquity have found traces that go back to the nomadic horse -drawn peoples of the Eurasian steppe.The latter, at the beginning of the first millennium before our era, burst into the civilized states located on the north and southern shores of the Black Sea.But Cimmerians and Scythians were probably not the first to have the idea of cutting the fabric and sewing it in this way so that it can cover each leg individually.

In 2014, in the Tourfan basin, in western China, researchers from the German archaeological institute discovered what is probably the oldest pair of pants known in the world.There, at the edge of what would later become the Silk Road, the climate is so dry that it is not uncommon to find intact clothes in the burials.The discovery is also a sensation for another reason: the grave is indeed around three thousand two hundred years.It must therefore be deduced that around 1200 BCE, already, people had started

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