To track down the Scythians' elusive beginnings, a team of researchers from several institutions surveyed one of the earliest examples of a royal burial mound containing Scythian material culture; the ...

The ancient Scythians — nomadic warriors and pastoralists who flourished on the steppes of Europe and Asia — turned human skin into leather, a new study finds. The discovery confirms a claim made by ...

A mummified body attributed to the Scythian culture of the Eurasian steppes has drawn renewed scholarly attention for what ...

Because of their interactions and conflicts with the major contemporaneous civilizations of Eurasia, the Scythians enjoy a legendary status in historiography and popular culture. The Scythians had ...

When Russian explorers opened the frozen burial mounds of the Altai, they uncovered tattooed rulers, golden treasures, and the forgotten legacy of the Scythians. This chapter traces how these nomadic ...

When it was made: Around 400 to 350 B.C. Related: Cave of Swimmers: 9,000-year-old rock art of people swimming in what's now the arid Sahara What it tells us about the past: The Scythians were a ...

Researchers have deciphered the diet of an important nomadic people in Eastern European history. By analyzing dental calculus, they have provided the first direct evidence that the diet of the ...

In the fascinating history of Oriental rugs, filled with cultural legacy and artistic significance, there is perhaps no single rug more remarkable than The Pazyryk rug — the oldest known piled rug, ...

At head of title: The BP exhibition. "Organized with the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia." Catalog of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London, September 14, 2017 - January 14, ...