An Etruscan statue of a Scythian mounted archer from the early 5th century BCE. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fair Use) Popularized by myth and historical accounts as horse-riding warrior nomads ...

Discovering the Scythians -- The Scythians as others saw them -- Landscapes with people -- Enter the predatory nomads -- The rise of the Pontic Steppe Scythians: 700-200 BC -- Crossing the Carpathians ...

In the 5th century BCE, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (ca. 484 – 420 BCE) described the nomadic Scythian peoples living in the Eurasian steppes. Like a lot of written history, things can be ...

Sir, On September 14 the British Museum will launch an exhibition devoted to the Scythians, an ancient Siberian tribe notable for their treatment of inaccurate forecasters, analysts and the like.

The Scythians were a barbaric group of horse-riding nomads who dominated a vast stretch of Eurasia from around the ninth to first centuries BC. Among outsiders, they had a reputation as brutal ...

Ancient nomads known as the Scythians did indeed use human skin for the containers that held their arrows—confirming the account of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who is often questioned about ...

Horse-riding Scythian herders and warriors, who inhabited Central Asia and Eastern Europe around 2,500 years ago, may have had cultural roots several thousand kilometers to the east in Siberia, a new ...

March 26 (UPI) --The Scythians of Eurasia have long been regarded as highly mobile, horse-riding warriors. Their cultural influence on the empires with which they both clashed and traded served as ...

Crimea's identity as a point of conflict among regional powers has been recognized since at least the 5th century BC, when Herodotus described the Scythians who lived there as barbarians who drank ...