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 ...

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An international team of scientists has managed to decipher the genetic code of the Scythians, perhaps one of the most fascinating and enigmatic peoples of antiquity, known for their skill in ...

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 ...

"Scythian" is a term used to denote a diverse but culturally related group of nomads who occupied a large swathe of grassland, or steppes, that stretched from north of the Black Sea all the way to ...

Generally thought of as fierce horse-warriors, the Scythians were a multitude of Iron Age cultures who ruled the Eurasian steppe, playing a major role in Eurasian history. A new study published in ...

The kurgans of the Scythians dot the Eurasian steppes from Mongolia to the Balkans, and through Ukraine and on to the Black Sea. It is from the artifacts uncovered in the kurgans that archaeologists ...

Ancient Greek generals lived in fear of the Scythians – no culture could have survived a united attack by the Siberian horseback armies, it was said. That's no surprise. The Scythians were extremely ...

The Lomonosov Moscow State University anthropologists have put forward an assumption that the Scythian gene pool was formed on the basis of local tribes with some participation of populations, ...

The ancient Scythians, a nomadic people known for their gold and warrior ways, used human skin for leather, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

What made Scythians so formidable wasn’t simply the fact that they were great fighters, but that they were great fighters on horseback. If this sounds at all familiar to Game of Thrones fans, it’s ...