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To: SunkenCiv

The Scythians produced many surviving examples of gold jewelry and metalwork. I saw a traveling exhibit some years ago which was on loan from Russia and it was most impressive.


16 posted on 11/23/2012 6:25:51 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Ciexyz

They evidently blinded those they took in war according to Herodotus (and had some real strange cultural quirks to boot.)

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Scythians.html


22 posted on 11/23/2012 7:06:29 PM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG ... there is no such thing as coincidence)
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