Chariots Discovered in Ancient Chinese Tomb

Speculating; the bones were laid-out ceremonally.

Maybe that's a steam-roller and not a chariot?

I would guess that the weight of whatever they were buried under flattened them out. Same thing happened with the dinosaurs. Maybe Ryan can refer you to a scientific paper on the subject.

If Chinese can make fake Rolex, they could also make flat horses

Gravity spill over from the Zero Point Module.

Geesh, don't you people watch TV?

How else would you pose and bury a dead horse? It's not like you can make it stand up.

@ted

Compaction-Related Deformation in Cambrian Olenelloid Trilobites and its Implications for Fossil Morphometry
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1306790

"Compaction-related deformation, defined as distortion of specimens by the weight of overlying sediment, is the deformation process that most commonly affects fossil form."

I'll take Gravity for 300 Alex.

This is what happens to things that are buried under the ground for thousands of years.

What is lay flat?

That is correct.

Your Mother Trabek!

If you didn't want horses that go flat after being buried under hundreds of tons of earth for more than two millennia, you should have bought American and not knock-off Chinese counterfeits.

i'm guessing it's 'cause they're dead.

I know that when I spend a couple thousand years buried under tons of dirt, I feel pretty flat myself. Let some filly in heat prance by, and they'll perk right up.

Maybe they all had a slow leak.

It's the 2D version. If you want 3D, you have to cough up another $3 for the glasses.

This looks like a sand sculpture rather than an archeological dig.

They are flat because they're from IKEA, you have to assemble them with the little allen wrench. It's the new Hürsee line.

They had flat horse breed pedigree in the old times, before they abused cinching and made them round.

LOL I really wish this website had voting for comments available. Y'all are some pretty clever folks.

We know from cave drawings that ancient horses were flat