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The Scythians (/ ˈ s ɪ θ i ə n / or / ˈ s ɪ ð i ə n /) or Scyths (/ ˈ s ɪ θ /, but note Scytho-(/ ˈ s aɪ θ oʊ /) in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, [7] [8] were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the ...
The Royal Scythian burials in the forest-steppe included: [1] [35] [17] the Melgunov Kurgan, from sometime between 575 and 550 BC, which was the oldest known Scythian burial within Scythia itself in the Pontic steppe, and belonged to those Royal Scythians who had left West Asia for the northern Pontic region. A Scythian ruler who had arrived ...
The territory of the Scythian kingdom of the Pontic steppe extended from the Don river in the east to the Danube river in the west, and covered the territory of the treeless steppe immediately north of the Black Sea's coastline, which was inhabited by nomadic pastoralists, as well as the fertile black-earth forest-steppe area to the north of the treeless steppe, which was inhabited by an ...
The conquest of their territories by the Scythians from the east pushed the Agathyrsi westwards, out of the Pontic Steppe, with the Scythians themselves replacing them as the main population of the Pontic Steppe, [25] [36] thus completing the process of the Scythians becoming the main dominant population of the Pontic-Steppe [10] over the ...
The Sigynnae themselves originated as a section of the first wave [9] [5] [10] [11] of the nomadic populations who originated in the parts of Central Asia corresponding to eastern Kazakhstan or the Altai-Sayan region, [12] and who had, beginning in the 10th century BC and lasting until the 9th to 8th centuries BC, [13] migrated westwards into the Pontic-Caspian Steppe regions, where they ...
The Scythian religion was connected to the Indo-Iranian traditions, [2] and was influenced by that of the populations whom the Scythians had conquered, such as the sedentary Thracian populations of the western Pontic steppe. Due to this, many of the Scythian male deities had equivalents in the pantheon of the Thracian peoples, including those ...
Scythians and related Northeastern Iranic peoples in the Iron Age highlighted in green. Europe, 117–138 CE, when the Alani were concentrated north of the Caucasus Mountains (centre right). The first mentions of names that historians link with the Alani appear at almost the same time in texts from the Mediterranean, Middle East and China.
Scythian women wore armor, loose pants, and were often depicted with bows and arrows. Scythian women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men. In one-third of the ancient Scythian burial mounds, women have weapons and war injuries just like the men. They also buried the women with knives and daggers and tools.