scythians

Ancient genomic time transect from the Central Asian Steppe unravels the history of the Scythians Abstract The Scythians were a multitude of horse-warrior nomad cultures dwelling in the Eurasian steppe during the first millennium BCE. Because of the lack of first-hand written records, little...

BERN, SWITZERLAND—Newsweek reports that an undisturbed kurgan thought to hold the tomb of a Scythian prince has been found in southern Siberia by archaeologist Gino Caspari of Bern University. Caspari spotted the kurgan in a remote, swampy area in the Uyuk River Valley with high-resolution...

Interested in history of European tribes, I've come to read about Scythians. But the articles about them are of a low quality (see wiki) and often biased. Despite their European looks and traditions (light hair and eyes, attested by 20+ different historical accounts...), they are called...