| It appears possible that eventually the Tocharians may be classified with the eastern Scythians. |
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| In the third century B.C., Scythians were displaced by Sarmatians, who in turn were overrun by waves of Germanic Goths. |
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| The first and most effective race to use the horse in battle was the Scythians. |
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| To the east of the Scythians there lived another horse people, the Sarmatians. |
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| Throughout history the peninsula has been colonised by Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Khazars, Genoese and Venetians. |
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| The Scythians and the Hyperboreans were the noble savages of the Ancients. |
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| The Scythians rejected the Greek way of life, but their aristocracy frequently used jewelry and toreutics made by the Greeks especially for them and adapted to their taste. |
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| Herodotus found the practice among the Pontic Scythians, and, according to the Maccabees, the ancient Persians tore away the scalp of one of their prisoners. |
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| The Scythians doing this howled with joy, according to the Father of History. |
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| I am reading Herodotus, who describes in detail and with great fidelity these same galactophagous Scythians among whom I am living. |
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| The kingdom of the Medes helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire in tandem with the nomadic Scythians and the Babylonians. |
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| The rectums of the two Scythians from Berel contained hookworm eggs, the researchers report in the May 6 Lancet. |
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| Thus even Scythians and Sarmatians sent envoys to seek the friendship of Rome. |
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| During the war between the Scythians and the Persian Empire, the Scythians came to dominate the Neuri. |
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| Siberia was inhabited by different groups of nomads such as the Enets, the Nenets, the Huns, the Scythians and the Uyghurs. |
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| Germania was inhabited mostly by Germanic tribes, but also Celts, Balts, Scythians and later on Early Slavs. |
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| The Scythians, arriving with their own type of Iron Age civilization, put a stop to these relations with the West. |
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| Darius the Great, king of Persia, crossed the river in the late 6th century BC in order to invade European Scythia and to subdue the Scythians. |
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| Now there was a nation of the Alans, which we have formerly mentioned somewhere as being Scythians, and living around Tanais and Lake Maeotis. |
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| During the Iron Age, the land was inhabited by Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians. |
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| In various times Mongolic peoples have been equated with the Scythians, the Magog and the Tungusic peoples. |
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| They consisted of various Indo European tribes such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Huns, Avars and Thracians most of which were influenced by the rich Persian culture. |
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| News was brought him, that the Scythians, and barbarous nations of the North, were again up in arms, and invading the empire with furious impetuosity. |
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| Beyond Hemodos, lies Scythia inhabited by the Scythians known as Sakai. |
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| Scythians accompanied the Assyrian Esarhaddon on his invasion of Egypt, and their distinctive triangular arrowheads have been found as far south as Aswan. |
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| Alexander personally defeated the Scythians at the Battle of Jaxartes and immediately launched a campaign against Spitamenes, defeating him in the Battle of Gabai. |
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| The Cimmerians overran Phrygia and the Scythians threatened to do the same to Urartu and Lydia, before both were finally checked by the Assyrians. |
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| Ancient peoples in the region included Galatians, Hurrians, Scythians, Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Hattians, Cimmerians, Ionian Greeks, the Mongols and Arabs. |
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| The first Greek references to the Goths call them Scythians, since this area along the Black Sea historically had been occupied by an unrelated people of that name. |
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| The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. |
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