4) Overall, these documents uncover how precarious ancient China's postal system really was and how it required both people and horses to work together in arduous conditions. Many more examples of what this meant in action for the horses and their drivers in the article:
This article seeks to expand the history of pre-industrial animal labor beyond the farmyard. Centering on China’s ancient postal system, it approaches a surviving corpus of over 20,000 excavated admin...
