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Darius's invasion was resisted by Idanthyrsus, Skōpasis and Taxakis, with the Scythians refusing to fight an open battle against ...

lower Dnipro region of a fully formed Scythian culture with no local forerunners, and which included a notable increase in the n ...

Scythian comb from Solokha, early 4th century BC In the north and north-west, Scythian expansionism manifested itself through th ...

grain, which was then transported through the Southern Buh and Dnipro rivers to the Greek cities to their south such as Tyras, N ...

unfortified settlements around the lower reaches of the Dnipro river since the late 5th century BC, and this process intensified ...

time the Scythians founded a new settlement at Yelizavetovskaya [ru] which functioned as the main administrative, commercial and ...

Decline and end During the end of the 4th century BC, the Scythians were militarily defeated by a king of Macedonia again, this ...

By 50 to 150 AD, most of the Scythians had been assimilated by the Sarmatians.[19] The remaining Scythians of Crimea, who had mi ...

In the 4th century BC, the Athenian politician Aeschines referred to the Scythian ancestry of his opponent Demosthenes to attemp ...

At the same time, drawing on the Classical authors' lumping together of the ancient Celts and Scythians under the label of "Barb ...

Scythians at the Tomb of Ovid (c. 1640), by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld During the early modern era itself, colonial ethnographers ...

of "right old and rare" objects to Saint Petersburg in exchange for compensation, and the material thus obtained became the basi ...

Life restoration of Protoceratops Ancient Greek sculpture of a griffin The scholar Adrienne Mayor hypothesised over the course o ...

Archaeology Main article: Scythian culture Scythian defence line 339 BC reconstruction in Polgár, Hungary Scythian archaeology c ...

Germanic peoples Roman bronze statuette representing a Germanic man with his hair in a Suebian knot. Dating to the late 1st cent ...

constructed a long fortified border, the Limes Germanicus. From 166 to 180 CE, Rome was embroiled in a conflict against the Germ ...

Cimmerians The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic– Caspian steppe, pa ...

North Germanic Peoples Or Nordic People North Germanic peoples , commonly called Scandinavians ,[1] Nordic peoples [2] and in a ...

carriers of haplogroup I, the emergence of the Battle Axe culture in Scandinavia is characterized by the appearance of new linea ...

seafaring.[46] From a very early time, Germanic tribes are thought to have interacted with and possibly settled in the Baltic st ...