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“Now with our international team generating stimulating ideas and using cutting edge technologies I hope we can create a new understanding of the unique Qin and Xiongnu empires and how they were linked with horses and metals.” 

Xiuzhen Li 

Ursula Brosseder is one of Europe’s leading specialists in the archaeology of Mongolia. She reckons that multiple excavations have meant that she’s spent more than a year of her life camping on the steppe. Here she explains the latest phase of the Horsepower project – investigating thousands of horse skulls at burial sites – and what life in a Mongolian ger, or yurt, is like.

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