scythian in English
adjective
of or pertaining to Scythia; of or relating to the people or culture of Scythia
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1. Scythian influences have been identified as far as Korea and Japan.
2. Indo-Scythian coinage is generally of a high artistic quality, although it clearly deteriorates towards the disintegration of Indo-Scythian rule around AD 20 (coins of Rajuvula).
3. Greek communities, far from being exterminated, probably persisted under Indo-Scythian rule.
4. The Scythian belief was a more archaic stage than the Zoroastrian and Hindu systems.
5. More than 1,000 ancient Scythian kurgans, or burial mounds, have been excavated, containing skeletons and weapons.
6. On the Danube, Scythian tribes were once again on the loose, despite the peace treaty signed in 251.
7. Azes, the name of two Indo-Scythian kings of the major dynasty ruling an empire based on the Punjab and Indus valley from about 50 BCE to CE 30.Regarded as Parthian by some scholars and Scythian by others, the dynasty is probably Scytho-Parthian, a composite people using both Śaka and Pahlava names, derived from the Scythian settlement in the Parthian province of Sīstān.
8. Amazons and Scythians, by Otto van Veen, (pre 1629) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ( Public Domain) Scythian Burial Mounds
9. And in the steppe, reflecting the end of nomad hegemony in Scythian society, the royal kurgans were no longer built.
10. Prototi and Madius, Scythian kings in the Near Eastern period of their history, and their successors in the north Pontic steppes belonged to the same dynasty.
11. Greek writers began describing the griffin around 675 B.C., at the same time the Greeks first made contact with Scythian nomads.
12. One silver dish from this find bears some inscriptions, as yet undeciphered and so possibly representing a form of Scythian writing.
13. The Cimmerian commoners buried the bodies along the river Tyras and fled from the Scythian advance, across the Caucasus and into Anatolia
14. Azes II reigned from 35 BC to possibly as late as 5 AD and may have been the last Indo-Scythian king in northern India
15. The mummy of a Scythian warrior, which is believed to be about 2,500 years old, was a 30- to 40-year-old man with blond hair; it was found in the Altai, Mongolia.
16. The fall of the Second Scythian Kingdom came about in the second half of the 3rd century BC under the onslaught of Celts and Thracians from the west and of Sarmatians from the east.