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
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.
Lydia
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Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital was Sardis.
The temple of Artemis in Sardis, capital of Lydia
Tripolis on the Meander is an ancient Lydian city in Turkey.
Büyük Menderes River, also known as the Maeander is a river in Lydia.
Gyges tablet, British Museum