Sarmatians
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The Sarmatians were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from around the 5th century BC to the 4th century AD.
Sarmatian cataphracts depicted on Trajan's Column, 2nd century CE.
Reconstruction of early Sarmatian chieftain. Araltobe kurgan, Kazakhstan, III-II c. BC. Excavation of Z. Samashev.
Gold mirror, Mayerovsky III Kurgan 4 (Nikolaevsky District, Volgograd region), 2nd-1st centuries BC.
Sarmatian bottle and lid (1st century AD, reproduction)
Scythians
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The Scythians or Scyths, also known as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic St
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…formed part of the wider Scythian cultures. They started migrating westward around the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, coming to dominate the closely related Scythians by 200 BC. At their greatest reported extent, around 100 BC, these tribes could be found from the Danube and eastward to the Volga, bordering the shores…
The maximum extent of the Scythian kingdom in West Asia and surrounding areas
The maximum extent of the Scythian kingdom in the Pontic steppe
The 5th-century BC Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the most important literary source on the origins of the Scythians
Curled-up feline animal from Aržan-1, circa 800 BC.