scythians

Ancient genomic time transect from the Central Asian Steppe unravels the history of the Scythians Abstract The Scythians were a multitude of horse-warrior nomad cultures dwelling in the Eurasian steppe during the first millennium BCE. Because of the lack of first-hand written records, little...

This thread is dedicated to comparing the the closest results of people from various European countries and regions to specific ancient archaeological cultures (e.g. Corded Ware, Unetice, Nordic Bronze Age, Villanovan, Hallstatt) or specific unmixed ethnic groups (Romans, Gauls, Franks, Saxons...

BERN, SWITZERLAND—Newsweek reports that an undisturbed kurgan thought to hold the tomb of a Scythian prince has been found in southern Siberia by archaeologist Gino Caspari of Bern University. Caspari spotted the kurgan in a remote, swampy area in the Uyuk River Valley with high-resolution...

Interested in history of European tribes, I've come to read about Scythians. But the articles about them are of a low quality (see wiki) and often biased. Despite their European looks and traditions (light hair and eyes, attested by 20+ different historical accounts...), they are called...