Scythians
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Scythian
n.
inhabitant of Scythia; member of an ancient people of Scythia
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Scythians
The Scythians (, also ) or Scyths (; from
Greek
), a
nation
of horse-riding
nomadic pastoralists
who spoke an
Iranian language
, dominated the
Pontic steppe
throughout
Classical Antiquity
. By
Late Antiquity
the closely-related
Sarmatians
came to dominate the Scyths in this area. Much of the surviving information about the Scyths comes from the Greek historian
Herodotus
(c. 440 BCE) in his
Histories
, and archaeologically from the exquisite goldwork found in Scythian
burial mounds
in
Ukraine
and Southern
Russia
.
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