It is not difficult to imagine a horse with a horn on its forehead. Ever since this story was first told, people have thought that such a horse actually existed. But! Where does this story come from?

Unicorn-like animals in images date back to the Indus Valley Civilisation (approximately 3300 BC to 1300 BC) in South Asia, which covered parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The drawings show a horse with one horn. However, according to the St. Neots (st. Neots museum) museum, these images were most likely a representation of an aurochs (Bos primigenius), a now-extinct wild ox.

According to the American Museum of Natural History (New York), Chinese descriptions of Asian unicorns date back to ~2700 BC. This 'unicorn' appears to have been a 'combination' of different animals: the body of a deer, the tail of an ox, multi-coloured or scale-like dragon-like fur, and a flesh-covered horn (or horns). Despite the physical differences, Asian unicorns were described as elusive and solitary creatures, much like in later documents produced in Europe.