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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crimea's identity as a point of conflict among regional powers has been recognized since at least the 5th century BC, when Herodotus described the Scythians who lived there as barbarians who drank ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

The Scythians were a barbaric group of horse-riding nomads who dominated a vast stretch of Eurasia from around the ninth to first centuries BC. Among outsiders, they had a reputation as brutal ...

From horse armour to the tattooed skin of a warrior and a tent for smoking hemp, this beguiling exhibition unearths the intimate relics of an entire nomadic culture When the composer Igor Stravinsky ...

Sir, On September 14 the British Museum will launch an exhibition devoted to the Scythians, an ancient Siberian tribe notable for their treatment of inaccurate forecasters, analysts and the like.