Those Roman horses were excellent artists! They even put little people in the carts.
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This should be marked NSFW. That last horse looks a little horny
Damn! Those animals can draw
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.
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.
Oh, you're correct, I didn't catch that XD
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.
I wonder what they used at the time to reduce shocks and other mechanical vibrations
A pillow