[SunkenCiv]

Spatial frequency distribution maps of East Eurasian lineages -- A- Pre-Iron Age period; B- Iron Age period. Frequency values and detailed information for populations 1-8 are shown in table 3. 1- Mongolia (Altai), 2- Gorny Altai, 3- West Kazakhstan, 4- Central Kazakhstan, 5- South Kazakhstan, 6- East Kazakhstan, 7- SW Siberia, 8- Mongolia (Egyin Gol). Image: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

[yarddog]

If I remember my Classics right, the Persians, Greeks and even the Romans feared the Scythians.

Isn’t that where Jason and the Argonauts found the golden fleece?

[GeronL]

Scythian warriors carried Scythes, right??

[Nifster]

Scythians-—the stock of Scots and other Celts

[GeronL]

and they still found time to invent Scyttles

[GeronL]

BUMP

[yarddog]

Boy, this one went downhill fast.

[bunkerhill7]

The Scythians were famous for inventing a chariot with rotating scythes on their chariot wheels that could mow down solders in battle and wheat in peacetime. It was the first convertible car.

[OrioleFan]

Sythian - Dance All Night.

[COBOL2Java]

The team extracted and analysed mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the mother, it allows us to trace our ancestors) from the bones and teeth of 19 Pazyryk skeletons dating to the Bronze Age (7th to 10th century BCE) and from the Iron Age (2nd to 7th century BCE) from the Mongolian Altai Mountains.

It's incredible the doors to our past that modern technology can open for us.

[Oratam]

You are millions. We are hordes and hordes and hordes.
Try and take us on!
Yes, we are Scythians! Yes, we are Asians -
With slanted and greedy eyes!

Alexander Blok

[ABN 505]

I believe the Scythians were the first to rape Thrace thrice.

[DainBramage]

There were several clans of Scythians.

This is John the the four Scythe.