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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.
The name Melanchlaeni is a Latinisation of the ancient Greek name Melankhlainoi (Ancient Greek: Μελάγχλαινοι), which meant "Black-Cloaks." [2]The Greek name might have been a translation of an ancient Iranic name [3] meaning "those who wear black garments," [4] whose later form, Sawdarata, was recorded in Ancient Greek as Saudaratai (Ancient Greek: Σαυδαραται; Latin ...
Coat covered with gold-decorated scales of the pangolin. India, Rajasthan, early 19th century Dacian scale armour on Trajan's column. Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing of cloth or leather in overlapping rows. [1]
It said the Allard Pierson Museum had returned 565 items including ancient sculptures, Scythian and Sarmatian jewellery and Chinese lacquer boxes. It said the collection would be stored in the ...
Scythian art stopped existing after the end of the Pontic Scythian kingdom in the early 3rd century BC, and the art of the later Scythians of Crimea and Dobruja was completely Hellenised, with the paintings and sculptures from Scythian Neapolis belonging to the Greek artistic tradition and having probably been made by Greek sculptors.
The "sp" in the name suggests [citation needed] that it was mediated through Iranian sources to Greek, indeed in Early Iranian Arimaspi combines Ariama (love) and aspa (horses). Herodotus or his source seems to have understood the Scythian word as a combination of the roots arima ("one") and spou ("eye") and to have created a mythic image to ...
The Scythian archers were a hypothesized police force of 5th- and early 4th-century BC Athens that is recorded in some Greek artworks and literature. The force is said to have consisted of 300 armed Scythians (a nomadic Iranic people living in the Eurasian Steppe ) who were public slaves in Athens.
Scythian Biosciences (OTC: SCCYF) announced an “arm’s length letter of intent” to acquire CannCure Investments Inc. for C$136.5 million. Scythian's $105M Florida Acquisition, Segra's Raise ...