Ukraine: Scythian archers, gold ornament Golden artefacts from the Scythian Treasure of Kul-Oba, near Kerch, 4th century BCE.

The Scythians were an ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in the west. Photo by PHGCOM (CC BY-SA 3.0 License).

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