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Scythian art
scythian lamb
Mythical plant resembling a sheep.
Scythian religion
The Scythian religion refers to the mythology, ritual practices and beliefs of the Scythian cultures, a collection of closely related ancient Iranian peoples who inhabited Central Asia and the Pontic–Caspian steppe in Eastern Europe throughout Classical Antiquity, spoke the Scythian language (itself a member of the Eastern Iranian language family), and which included the Scythians proper, the Cimmerians, the Sarmatians, the Alans, the Sindi, the Massagetae and the Saka.
Scythian languages
The (or or ) a group of Eastern Iranic languages of the classical and late antique period (the Middle Iranic period), spoken in a vast region of Eurasia by the populations belonging to the Scythian cultures and their descendants.
Scythian cultures
Scythian campaign of Darius I
a military expedition into parts of European Scythia by Darius I, the king of the Achaemenid Empire, in 513 BC.Miroslav Ivanov Vasilev.
Scythian Neapolis
Scythian Neapolis, also known as Kermenchik, was an Iranic settlement that existed in the Crimean Peninsula from the end of the 3rd century BC until the second half of the 3rd century AD.
Scythian Suite
The Scythian Suite, Op. 20 is an orchestral suite by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1915.
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