One of them, close to the town, contained, along with other Scythian antiquities, the well-known precious vase representing the capture of wild horses.
He is there said to have caused a certain Sunilda or Sanielh to be torn asunder by wild horses on account of her husband's traitorous conduct.
In Europe wild horses were abundant in the prehistoric Neolithic or polished-stone period.
The characters of the bones preserved, and certain rude but graphic representations carved on bones or reindeers' antlers, enable us to know that they were rather small in size and heavy in build, with large heads and rough shaggy manes and tails, much like, in fact, the recently extinct tarpans or wild horses of the steppes of the south of Russia, and the still-surviving Mongolian wild pony or " Przewalski's horse."
The park abounds in natural beauty and abundant wildlife, including bison and wild horses.
