Sindi people
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The Sindi were an ancient people of the Taman Peninsula and the adjacent Black Sea coast of western Ciscaucasia, where their country was known to the Greeks as Sindica. They are commonly treated as a
Sindi warrior statue. Limestone, 1st century AD. Kerch Archaeology Museum.
Ancient terracotta vessels unearthed at the Sindian necropolis near Phanagoria. Photograph by Prokudin-Gorskii (c. 1912).
Silver coin of Sindica, a diobol of the 5th century BC.
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
Sindi people
…western Ciscaucasia, where their country was known to the Greeks as Sindica (Ancient Greek: Σινδική, romanized: Sindikḗ). They are commonly treated as a Scythian group ruling over a Maeotian population, though their ethnic and linguistic affiliation is disputed. The most heavily Hellenized of the peoples of the…
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.