Royal Scythia

A large Scythian royal kurgan Gaimanova Mohyla dating to the 4th century BC situated near Balky in the Zaporizhia oblast of Ukraine was...

As a rule, the higher the kurgan, the more horses were buried in it. From this perspective, although almost 9 meters tall Tovsta Mogyla...

"Meanwhile, the Scythians as allies of the Assyrians tried to raise the siege of Nineveh which was being prosecuted by the Medes; hence a...

The frieze vessel was found in the same chamber as the priestess. In the first scene, one lion-headed and one eagle-headed griffins tear a...

From the little available information, the rhyton was stolen by Moscow and sold to France. Now in Louvre. "Royal Scythia, Greece, Kyiv Rus" book has...

Vima Kadphises (c. AD 113–127) was an Indo-Scythian King who expanded the Kushan territory in Afghanistan and northwest India. David Jongeward in his book 'Kushan Mystique' described Vima's...

Herodotus recorded the Greek myth of Herakles and the snake goddess in what is now Scythia: "The Hellenes who inhabit the Pontic region on...

Denis Topal of the National Archaeology And History Museum Of Moldova: "The ceremonial sword from Vettersfelde Treasure belongs to the earliest part of the...

The Solokha barrow, on the left bank of the Dnieper River, not far from the city of Nikopol in central Ukraine, was excavated in...

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...