[Archaeology Magazine] Gold leopard braceletAtyrau Provincial Administration
[Archaeology Magazine] Gold leopard braceletAtyrau Provincial Administration
Is that from the Good Samaritan’s grave or those other guys?
The Sarmatians are new to me. I’m not up on my Kazakhstan history. I have a couple of coins, though.
They were Iranian nomads with a language similar to that of the Scythians. Herodotus calls them Sauromatae and thinks they are descended from the union of Scythian men and Amazon women.
He says that the women go out hunting on horseback, with or without their husbands, go to war, and wear the same clothes as the men. He says that one of their marriage customs is that a woman cannot marry until she has killed a male enemy. (Book 4, chapters 110-117)
