Horse Lords: A Brief History of the Scythians
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You didn't mention the Sakas (Indo-scythians) whose descendants the Jats have strong cavalry and martial traditions. Also a footnote about the Scizone poison supposedly used by the Scythian archers is missing. Would dearly love to see a video on Hepthalite invasions.
Sub! Most interesting video i've seen so far this year!
Any sugestion for Bulgarians ?Most Evedenses says that bulgarians came from Baktria, some says that we are tracians ... Protobulgarians were Sarmatians but .. i dont know ;d if you have some look for us Bulgarians share it :)
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Out of curiosity have the African Americans claimed them yet
As in "They were Black to"
They have claimed just about every civilisation/nationality/nation there was or is. I'm expecting it any time soon if they haven't already 😕 Fabulous video by the way 😊
History Time nice video... You have put your sweat in it! Sarmatians are royal scyntians.... My people came from there... Can you make a video about croatians? I would but i dont how... I will try to do it. We are 5500y old nation!
Peter the Great is unexpected hero here. We're so lucky he decided to save so many of those finds. Brillaint video by the way. Can't wait to see more.
Agreed. Thanks! loving your stuff too.
He was something of an intellectual, which wasn't exactly common in the Russia of his time (even among the upper class).
I'm glad he saved them too.
IDK about whether given the title or not if you are smart you are smart.
Peter the Great, as he is known, is an impostor who was sent from England. When he got back in Russia: (i) he did not recognise people well known to the real Peter before he went to Europe (WHY?); (ii) his wife was sent to monastery without ever seen him (WHY?); his sister, Sophia, was incarcerated on his return in Russia (WHY?); (iii) he couldn't remember anything that happened with the real Peter before he went to Europe (WHY?); (iv) he couldn't speak fluently Russian (WHY?).
In order to have control on the real history (i.e. to falsify it as needed), the impostor known as Peter the Great, "upon realizing the magnitude of the finds, decreed by pain of death that every discovery should be taken directly to him", which policy towards all historical artefacts, especially the written ones, remained after him even more vigorously by Catherine the Great.
Further, don't you see a very, very strange similarity between the "mysterious standing stones, bordered by hundreds of ancient burial mounds" (1:56) and Stonehenge (which, as we are told, is 4,000 y old) ?!?!?
my Great-grandmother was from the jassic region of Hungary and used to tell my grand mother that they were descended from Scythians
Because they were, the Jasy are one and the same as the Iazyg tribe of Alans.They destroyed the 21st Legion Rapax “The Raptor” Marcus Aurelius defeated the Iazyg and posted 8500 Iazyg troops along Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, some of them were settled in Britany as well. They literally went from Scythia to Camelot. The descendants of these Alan’s figured greatly in the 1066 invasion of Britain.
Scythians were definitely not a homogenous group, they were nomadic, nomadic don't judge people by their race, so please don't use your narrow peasant mind to define who they were.they were more like Eurasian mix type, but more of northern and central Asian and eastern central Europe, at the end I would say they were nomadic nation's common ancestry, they were one of the pinnacles of nomadic culture. They were the protector of earth, unlike "civilized" peasants, who can;t live harmony with the nature, always desire more, even it's gonna ruin the soil they are living in, if today's world ruler is one of the descendants of Scythians, world will definitely be a better place, no racism, no extremist religious people. no harm is done to mother earth, no evil nuclear bomb and any other evil creatures gonna pollute our precious land, no border controller, everybody moving freely, no first world, third world.Everybody will be truly created equal, unlike nowadays hypocrisy western culture which is ruling the world and leading earth to a total destruction, The nomadic culture more like a indigenous culture of earth itself, which always emphasized the nature's importance, the destruction of nature would be a severe crime, and will receive serious punishment. Western and their so-called modern culture are not built on the harmony between man and nature, it's about man above nature, and destroy nature for its own benefits, even the consequences of their action gonna be devastating, they will still do it, for the profit and "development". Western culture is more like an alien culture, highly possible inherited from some invasive creature from an already being destroyed planet, so they are by nature aggressive and disrespectful, and always think they are better than the indigenous earthling. The earth we were living in now will eventually be being destroyed by these evil power, and now they were already starting to look for another planet for them to destroy!!
Iazyges and Iassic people have nothing to do with each other. Iassic people arrived in medieval Europe late, are Ossetians remnants of Sarmatian tribes. As name and culture they can be related and even considered separate branches of the same people, but as history they are not very related. You imply a continuity in the plains? That will be a second continuity theory in the area and I am quite sure that their migration is recorded.
Also, both of you are wrong, they were not Scythians, but Sarmatians.
There is a difference in age, location, tactics, material and language. Also Scythians could mean anything iranians, turks, dacians, slavs, vlahs, depending on the age. Sarmatians were just Iranians.
To the core it was a relation as the tartar-mongol relation, but we cannot put equal.
So Iassic are not Iazyges, and both were not Scythians as ethnicity.
Ertonts Choros opinions are like assholes everyone has one you are no exception.
Vasile Iuga I based my opinion from what the 1st century historian Flavius Josephus states about the Alans he called them a Scythian tribe.
6:20 Scythians are direct descendants of earlier steppe cultures such as yamnaya and sintashta. They spoke an indo-european language and were the same race as their predecessors
Scythians were named after their battle scythes. Science tell us they were protoslavs but there is nation that still call themselvs after this weapon or work tool. They are Serbs in Europe. Their language is Srpski - which means - from scythe. They have the most old sanscrit words.
According to the Roman emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the Serbs got their name for being always in SERVItude to the Roman Emperors.
Borislav Mitev SerBs aka SrBi is original name Serbs called them selves. Ilirians were known for their military SERVICE, thats why latin language have 'service', its from Serbs. Byzant or Vizant, B into latin V... Its military service not servitude. Also slave is from word slav - Sloven becouse majority of war prisoners that germanic and romans took for slaves were slavs. You as bulgarian and as a slav think you are a slave? Not so, I supose. We were in constant battle with western wild plungering tribes. They lived from robbery and plungering slavs.
Borislav Mitev Slavs were all tribes that spoke same language, so similar that they can communicate, they also migrate allot. Even today we can understand each other. Isnt that beautifull? Tracians were also SLAVES for romans. They were Slavs too. Aka Scythians. Herodot confirm this saying that scythian language and tracian were more less the same.
Borislav Mitev he wish they were. Serbs fought against romans you dont expect that enemy propaganda tells truth about you dont you?
The Scythians women is where we got the Idea of the Amazon Warriors .
The first recorded reference to the Amazons was in the 6th book of Homer’s Iliad.
described the Amazons as “woman who like to go to war with men"
Herodotus, a 5th century BC historian said the Amazons were descendants of shipwrecked Greek woman and Scythian men.
Hippocrates, a 5th century BC physician, writes of a Scythian race called Sauromatae.
Strabo, a 1st century BC philosopher, places the Amazons at “the foot of the Caucasian mountains”.
He also supports the idea that these women would procreate with neighboring villages
described them as woman that worked the land, milking cattle and practiced war-like exercises.
Recently discovered evidence
Archeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball spent 5 years excavating more than 150 ancient kurgans of the 5th century B.C. located near the Kazakhstan border in Russia
14% of the graves were women buried with bronze daggers, arrowheads, swords and whetstones
Chemical analysis of the 68 bronze articles at the burial site revealed that there were a wide variety of different kinds of bronze, originating from very distant areas, as far as Caucasus and Kazakhstan.
Onus Cronus I would love to see an exploration of this concept alone!!
I agree with Christine. An in depth exploration of that topic would be intriguing
Christine VR I think there is a documentary on UA-cam exploring this concept, the story is that the Amazons fought on the side of Troy in the Trojan war. Being taken captive by the Greeks and while being taken back to Sparta on a Greek ship, they overpowered the Greek sailors. With no knowledge of sailing they became shipwrecked on the shores of Sarmatia/Scythia and took husbands there. There have been tombs of warriors (women) who were of some sort of priestess or ruling class buried withe their weapons on the step. The documentary traced their expansion into this area via Genetic studies . And found that there are some blond haired , blue eyed, women, an Amazonian trait, in that area to this day! Very interesting
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According to Wikipedia, the Scythians mentioned by Herodotus were linguistically related to Iranian people, and likely descendants of the Proto Indo-European Yamna culture people, but that the Turks, Huns, and Mongols are from separate peoples who adopted a similar culture, which has been labeled as “Scythian culture”.
eagle smart That’s why one needs to check the primary sources included in the footnotes.
@@phdtobe They were all Iranians! T-u-r-ks were in Mongolia! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Iranian_peoples
@@eaglesmart951 Learn basic history! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massagetae
I know basic history You should learn basic history.
Wikipedia is not relayeble source
Blessed to be Iranian and have this much culture, history and heritage. Zendebad (long live) Eran and it’s people!
And one of them would never die. No matter the number of battles she fought in or the number of injuries inflicted upon her person by her enemies, nothing could stop breath from coursing through her lungs and warm blood from flowing through her still beating heart. She was the worlds first known immortal and she grew to view her unnatural existence as more of a curse than a blessing. In time her name would be passed down the generations to become legend to a world that had long since forgotten her, and her exploits were the tentpoles of modern myth. She has gone by many names in history, but we few enlightened individuals who have learned to read between the margins like to refer to her as Andromache the Scythian, the Eternal Warrior....
The Scythians are generally believed to have been of Iranian origin. They spoke a language of the Scythian branch of the Iranian languages, and practiced a variant of ancient Iranian religion
Dead theory
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DNA analysis of the mummies would be enlightening.
Yes. Let's let the DNA tell the full story. Would be nice to know for sure instead of all this wild and far ranging speculation...
CornerTalker apparently it's expensive
Ancient dna not current dna and definitely not mitochondrial dna since that is a maternal dna
@@LuisAldamiz mit DNA doesn't tell much because it's all over the place, as you can see. Y DNA tells the dominant elements of the society.
Dna results proved it. They were proto Turks.
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Mads Hagen Thanks buddy. Tons more on the way :)
This is the best video that I've come across on Scythians so far. Great work!
The art is beautiful!
Anyone familiar with the Aryan theory of Indo-European cultural diffusion and population migration - before political considerations had it effectively purged from the Western academy - will understand the links between groups like the Scythians, ancient Iranians, and the vast expansion of culture-bearing warriors (possessing anatomical and genetic characteristics that correspond to those of Scandinavian and Germanic ancestry) that would disrupt (and eventually replace) the ideological and sociocultural paradigms that were established by agriculturalists who migrated to Europe [via the Mediterranean] back during the Neolithic.
Exactly,the origin of the European people(Germans,kelts) is just a politic question,buried by a lot of academic, genetic and historic prejudices and disputes.
I am from Lithuania background and I know in my heart scyhians.. the first timer ever heard throat music my emotions boiled over and I knew straight away then that's where I come from.. never felt animation what that whole entire life overwhelm me and made me realise my DNA is from there
I thought Scythians were Indo-European/Aryan. They even spoke an Iranian language.
Because forty persent of iranians people are turks such as azeries, qashqaeis, turkmens ... And shahseven nomads in moghan still live nomadic like other turco-mongolic people in schytians realm and in this areas you can find "kurgan"
The Iranian Azeris, Qashqaeis and Turkmens count as Iranian because they live in Iran. Their ethnicity is not Iranian. They are not originally of Iranic descent. They probably have Iranic admixture.
The Iranic Groups are Lurs, Bakhtiari, Pars, Kurds, Baloch, Gilaks, Mazanderanis, Ossetians, Pashtu and more.
Scythians were the so called "lost tribes of Israel" and were white men ua-cam.com/video/CirnXeE8dyI/v-deo.html
Iron Warrior
Azeris are different their language change in 4 hundred years ago they used to speak in Old Azeri language an north western iranian language for more info read Ahmad kasravi Tabrizi's books about it
Calling the Scythians the "forebears of...the huns, the turks, and the mongols" is quite a dubious thing to say. The Scythians were an indo-european people! You should really correct this!
And the origins of the Hun is unknown, so you can not say that they were not decended from the Sythians.
@@HunPride The Sarmatians and Alans were Scythians, and what's attested to of their language is very close to (as in still intelligible to) modern Ossetian (which is undeniably an Iranian IE language)
He means they were the first to adopt that classical steppe nomad horde life style and style of warfare. Not in language or culture.
I agree that Scythians were an Indo-European people who spoke an Iranic language. But to be fair, the similarities between Scythian and Turkic nomadic way of life and warfare is undeniable. Also not only do Turkic people today occupy the exact same geographic area as the Scythians did but they also have large amounts of West Eurasian (European) genes. In some areas Turkic people look like a mix between Northern European and Asian. Also the Huns and other Turkic people enter the scene just as the Scythians ceased to be mentioned in history. So I don't think that our is inconceivable that there was a period when the Turks gradually came in from the east of the Altai and absorbed and assimilated the Scythians and continued from where they dropped off.
@@paulpasche7853
Hunnic is Turkic Confederation.stop propaganda !
Hunnic Empire was the empire of the Huns. The Huns were a confederation of Eurasian tribes, especially Turkic ones, from the Steppes of Central Asia.
www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Hunnic_Empire
More advanced than we are today -not many of us will survive when the worst hits - could not grow, find or kill food for ourselves, let alone make shelter and beautiful Gold jewellery. Fascinating to know my school education was an utter waste of time. Thank you for this information on true history ( minus your novel padding). Subbed and liked. Again thank you.
Fascinating, "History Time". Thanks for this illuminating upload!
Proud to be a jat historian says that we are descendants of Scythian
Bhai yr historians to Dalit ko chodh kr sabhi ko Scythians btate hai. Historians ke apne alag alag ray hai. Bc bahut confusion hota hai😂
Fantastic. Thanks
There was an Indo-Scythian kingdom, and their descendants are known today as Jats.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Scythians
Jats aren't their only descendants... Many North Indian groups have some level of Scythian heritage. Jatts are just highly endogenous, making them very steppe shifted.
Wtf? Jats are Dravidian shudras
wikipedia is iranian propaganda site.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_reliable_source
Sythians are Iranian peoples and look caucasian not asiatic as the first pictures seem to suggests.
The original Rohirrim! But of course Tolkien actually meant the old Anglo-Saxons, but honestly, the Scythians were true horse lords.....also, I have a tiny bronze soldier/ sculpture of a Scythian archer, quite cool. Aside from that and a few books, there isn't a lot of stuff on these amazing people.....great video.
Ugh, I can't believe I missed the exhibition at the British Museum!
Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating.
Funny thing is for me Turkish people saying that Syctians are Turkic... Scythians are not Turkic nor anything also. They were the all people lived in central asia and transoxiana. They were nomad, hunter and shared same shamanistic, animistic religions. They were both Persians, Turkic people, Mongols, Indians etc. That was not a country nor empire. It was just the name Greeks called for all these nomadic, "barbarian" people.
And as Turkish guy, I'm not saying all Scythians was Turks but I know that some Turks was part of Scythians and be sure that there are no honour as being a Scythians. Pity on the fool feeling proud of being a member of a culture whos painting stones while Greeks, Persians are building libraries. Sad but true, we were part of these people.
Narrator seems to agree - describing more of a federation of people. Art even shows multiple influences. Most early cultures don't a have tight ID. Genetic studies really clarify the mixtures.
I enjoyed that very much thanks for posting.
The narrator sounds like Ewin McGregor. Thanks for sharing.
ALANS, an ancient Iranian tribe of the northern (Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Massagete) group, known to classical writers from the first centuries A.D. (see, e.g., Seneca, Thyestes 630; Annaeus Lucan, Pharsalia8.223, 10.454; Lucian, Toxaris 51, 54, 55, 60; Ptolemy, Geographia 6.14.3, 9, 11; and other sources below). Their name appears in Greek as Alanoi, in Latin as Alani or Halani. The same tribes, or affiliated ones, are mentioned as the Asaioi (Ptolemy 5.9.16), Rhoxolanoi, Aorsoi, Sirakoi, and Iazyges (Strabo 2.5.7, 7.2.4; 11.2.1, 11.5.8; 7.2.4). In early times the main mass of the Alans was settled north of the Caspian and Black seas. Later they also occupied the Crimea and considerable territory in the northern Caucasus.
The history of the Alans can be divided into three periods: (1) from the beginning of the Christian era to the great migration of peoples; (2) from that period to the Mongol invasion; (3) subsequent to the Mongol invasion. During the first period, the Alans appear as a nomadic, warlike, pastoral people who were professional warriors and took service, at various times, with the Romans, Parthians, and Sasanians. Their cavalry was particularly renowned. They participated in Mithridates’ wars with Rome (chronicled by Lucan), as well as in Roman campaigns in Armenia, Media, and Parthia in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. (see Josephus, Jewish Wars7.244-51, Antiquities 18.97; cf. accounts in Moses of Khoren, History of the Armenians [Langlois, Historiens II, pp. 105-06, 125] and the Georgian Chronicle [Kartlis tskhovreba, in M. F. Brosset and D. I. Chubinov, Histoire de la Georgie I, St. Petersburg, 1849]). Ammianus Marcellinus (31.2) describes the Alans’ nomadic economy and warlike customs.
The invasion of the Huns split the Alans into two parts, the European and the Caucasian. Some of the European Alans were drawn into the migration of peoples from eastern into western Europe. With the Germanic tribes of Visigoths and Vandals they passed into Gaul and Spain, some even reaching North Africa. The Alans fought on the side of the Romans in the battle of the Catalaunian Fields (A.D. 451), when Aetius defeated Attila, chief of the Huns. In 461 and 464 they made incursions into Italy. After Attila’s death they struggled, together with the Germanic tribes, to free themselves from Hun domination. Large Alan hordes settled along the middle course of the Loire in Gaul under King Sangiban and on the lower Danube with King Candac (the historian Jordanes sprang from the latter group). Another settlement is indicated by the name of the Spanish province Catalonia, which is but a slight deformation of Goth-Alania, “province of the Goths and Alans.” The French proper name “Alain” and English “Alan” are an inheritance from the tribe. The Alans also left an imprint on Celtic folk-poetry, e.g., the cycle of legends concerning King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table (see M. Hesse, “Iranisches Sagengut im Christlichen Epos,” Atlantis 1937, pp. 621-28; J. H. Grisward, “Le motif de l’épée jetée au lac: la mort d’Arthur et la mort de Batradz,” Romania 90, 1969, pp. 289-340). Part of the European Alans remained in the lands bordering the Black Sea, including the Crimea.
The Caucasian Alans occupied part of the Caucasian plain and the foothills of the main mountain chain from the headwaters of the Kuban river and its tributary, the Zelenchuk (in the west), to the Daryal gorge (in the east). They became sedentary and took to cattle-breeding and agriculture. Towns developed, elements of state organization appeared, and political and cultural ties were established with Byzantium, Georgia, Abkhazia [see Abḵāz], the Khazars, and Russia. Dynastic marriages were concluded with these countries. From the 5th century on, Christian propaganda was conducted, first by Byzantine, later also by Georgian, missionaries. The Alans adopted Christianity in the 10th century, and an Alan episcopal see was created.
In 244/857 Boḡā, a general of the caliph of Baghdad, invaded Transcaucasia and the northern Caucasus, devastating Georgia, Abkhazia, the Alan country, and the Khazar lands. The Alans soon recovered, however, and restored their state. They are often mentioned by medieval writers, both western (Procopius of Caesarea, Menander, Theophanes of Byzantium, Constantine Porphyrogenitus) and Arab and Persian. The latter use the name “Alān” or “Ās”; and in Russian chronicles and Hungarian sources the form “Yas” is found. In the 4th/10th century the Arab historian Masʿūdī indicates that the Alan kingdom stretched from Daghestan to Abkhazia. He describes its prosperity: “The Alan king (can) muster 30,000 horsemen. He is powerful, very strong and influential (among?) the kings. The kingdom consists of an uninterrupted series of settlements; when the cock crows (in one of them), the answer comes from the other parts of the kingdom, because the villages are intermingled and close together” (trans. V. Minorsky, A History of Sharvan and Darband, Cambridge, 1958, pp. 156-60). The anonymous Ḥodūd al-ʿālam (trans. Minorsky, pp. 83, 161, 318, 445) describes Alania as a vast country with 1,000 settlements; the people included both Christians and idol-worshipers, mountaineers and plain-dwellers. The text makes the important statement that, in the north, the Alans bordered on the Hungarians and the Bulgars (the ancestors of the Chuvash). In the east they gave their name to the Daryal gorge, called “Gate of the Alans” (Arabic Bāb al-Lān, Persian Dar-e Alān, hence Daryal).
The Mongol invasion of the 7th/13th century and Tamerlane’s wars in the 8th/14th proved fatal to the Alan state. Its organization was destroyed, and the population suffered heavy loss. Ebn al-Aṯīr reports: “The Tatars attacked the Alans; they massacred them, committed many outrages, plundered and seized prisoners, and marched on against the Qipchaqs” (XII, p. 252; for the events of 1221 A.D., see Camb. Hist. Iran V, p. 311). The remnants of the Alans broke up into three groups. One retreated into the foothills and gorges of the central Caucasus and lives there up to the present [see Ossetes], numbering some 400,000. The people of their eastern branch call themselves “Ir”, those of the western branch “Digor.” The name “Alan” survives among them, in the form “Allon”, only in folklore. (Russian “Osetiny” is from Georgian Oseti, “Alania.” The Georgians had long called the Alans Os- or Ovs- and their country Oset-.) A second group of Alans migrated with the Qipchaqs (Comani) into Europe, settling in Hungary. The territory they occupied is to this day called Jászság, “province of the Yas;” and its capital is Jászberény. They preserved their language and ethnic identity until the 15th century, but gradually adopted the Hungarian language and became assimilated. The third group took service under the Mongol khans. According to the Chinese chronicle Yuan-shi, these “Asu” played an important role in further Mongol expansion. The Catholic missionary John de Marignolli, who spent five years in China, states that there were up to 30,000 Ās there (H. Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither III [Hakluyt Society, second ser., no. 37], London, 1914, pp. 180ff.). In the course of time they perished in warfare or were absorbed into the local population.
The name “Alan” is derived from Old Iranian *arya-, “Aryan,” and so is cognate with “Īrān” (from the gen. plur. *aryānām). The ancient Alan language may, to some extent, be reconstructed on the basis of modern Ossetic (after excluding the latter’s Turkic and Caucasian additions). The Alans created no writing, and no texts survive in their language except an inscription in Greek letters on a tombstone from the headwaters of the Kuban (Grund. Iran. Phil. I, Anhang, p. 31). A few sentences are recorded by the Byzantine author Tzetzēs (Gerhardt, “Alanen und Osseten,” pp. 37-51). Various personal, ethnic, and place names are also known (see M. Vasmer, Die Iranier in Südrussland, Leipzig, 1923, pp. 25-29). This material at least indicates clearly the Iranian character of the Alan language.
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the cavalry peoples are often underrated despite being the bane and worth foes of even the greatest of our most adored civilizations
Siberia, inhospitable TODAY but not always. Must see history as it WAS not as it looks today.
Weird how thousands of years later there are newly delineated nations who try to claim exclusive "ownership" over those that existed loooooong before a single nation existed and who most likely influenced the -entire- eurasian continent.
Spectacular work!
Did a DNA test recently and discovered I have ancient Scythian ancestry. Really enjoyed your presentation.
Which test did you take.
@@ReasonAboveEverything Through My Heritage then sent my data to another research organisation.
@@llewellRsA GED match I presume. What oracles did you use?
@@ReasonAboveEverything My True Ancesry does it too
Hungarians were first identifiably called Scythians by the Byzantine emperor Leo the Wise. From the Middle Ages to the present day we consider ourselves as such. Even today some of us know and use our Scythian symbols.
Scythians were Indo-european people, not Mongol. Huns and Turks were known as western mongols. Scythians played a very significant role in the epic indian wars and are mentioned in Vedas as Saka. They also contributed to the creation of Persian Empire from their stronghold, Sistan, in eastern Iran.
in my messed up mind I have always associated the scythians with conan the barbarian
Conan was a Cimmerian. In real life, the Cimmerians were a similar (probably related) people to the Scythians, and lived on the steppes in eastern Europe. (Until the Scythians drove them out).
But the Cimmerians in the Conan stories were based on the Celts (Conan is an Irish name), and lived in what was supposed to be the British Isles before they became islands.
Iapetus McCool the Celts did span all of western Europe, you know. The Gauls, Gaels and Britons were all Celtic people.
I always conquered Scythia when playing Rome Total War.
Excellent production congratulations.... liked and subscribed
The Declaration of Arbroath refers to the Scottish people's decency from Scythia.
I'm not sure how credible there claim is other than to say the rock art and jewellery is very very similar to Pictish art. The Picts were absorbed by the Scots so while the Scots have the Scotia/Egyptian connection the Picts they integrated may have been aware of a connection to Scythia.
What is really interesting is the use of the horse and chariot by early Britons, the standing stone circles and the tattooing. The Picts were named by the Romans in what is believed to be a reference to their extensive tattooing.
The Picts are from the east side of Scotland and yes the artwork is very similar to the Sarmatian art. More so than the celtic artwork that absorbed the Picts. (Greetings from Scotland)
@@ianbarber3367 I'm in Fife. It's a shame there aren't more local excavations. The Doggerland archeology isn't being preserved or recorded well.
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@@ianbarber3367 in the Auld Grey Toon myself.
I'm glad I'm not alone in seeing a similarly in the artworks. Do you believe it's more than a superficial similarity?
Wow. Small world. I dont think the art is merely a coincidence. The eagles look identical, as do the cat type beasts, the boar and horse riders. The Burghead bull has that same style one continuous lines incorporating spirals. All near identical.
The combination of linguistic and DNA Genealogy data indicates that the aboriginal Europeans, the Y Chromosome haplogroup I people were the Proto-Indo-Europeans and the Proto-Slavic speakers. In contact with newcomers of other language groups mixing took place. Either the newcomers were absorbed into the autochthonous Proto-Slavic community, or the native Proto-Slavic population was so effected by the immigrants that they lost their Slavic identity and formed a language, which remained Indo-European but no longer recognizable as specifically Slavic. The Kurgan Theory and the Pontic Steppe Theory of the Indo-European origin failed completely.
Prior to the intrusion of the Y-Chromosome haplogroup R1b people, there was existing all over the Europe a Slavic substratum, which subsequently lost its Slavicity, but turned the Y Chromosome haplogroup R1b people from Altaic (Turkic) into the West-European Indo-European, which subsequently developed into Celtic resp. Basque.
The original Proto-Indo-Europeans were Proto-Slavic, a people with haplogroup I, who lived in Europe and the Middle East and turned the Germanic-Oghur R1a people into Proto-Slavic.
The Slavic languages are not derived from a Balto-Slavic language, but Baltic languages were created by the intermingling of northern Slavs with the Ogri (N1a people) which came from the Urals 2,500 to 3,000 years ago. Germanic people were living in the Far East as close relatives of the nomadic Türks.
Especially since there are similarities between German and Korean (Lie, 1991), as well as between Germanic and Chinese, where both of them are Kentum (Chang, 1988), and this indicates strongly that the ancestors of Germanic people were living in Far East and formed there the state of China. There persists the open question not only as to the degree to which Chinese was influenced by Germanic, which was studied by Chang (1988), but also as to the degree to which the Germanic was influenced by Korean, Chinese, and other Oriental languages. [Yet another question raised is: whether instead of Indo-Germanic some other designation such as Sino-Germanic would be more targeting and precise, Perdih & Jandaček (2012)]
International Journal of Social Science Studies: Vol 6, No 1 (2018)
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DOI: doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v6i1.2809 .
Another Slavic (Russian) scientist, DNA specialist Anatoliy Klyosov:
“Since the basic haplotype is the same, it shows that the Tatars, despite their tiny population now, originate from the oldest ancestor of the haplotypes R1a1 in north-west Asia. This is not a “Indo-European” common ancestor, and he did not come from the west, from Europe. He migrated from the east, from South Siberia, apparently from the Altay lands. Therefore, the Altaix language family, the Turkic group. R1a1, arriving in Europe, created (or adopted) the Indo-European, and the native languages in Southern Siberia were Altaic. Therefore, R1b1, of the same origin, originally was also proto-Turkic (Klyosov, 2010). [...]
Thus, the haplogroup R1a1 spread throughout the world in the form of an ancient variant from Southern Siberia, an “age” between 21 thousand and 7 thousand years, and a more recent “Indo-European” version, approximately 5 thousand years or less... ”.
A. Klyosov: Russian Academy of DNA Genealogy. Vol 3, No 6, 2010.
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".. overwhelming linguistic evidence, among which most important is the spread of exclusively Turkic loanword related to horse terminology in all languages of Eastern Europe, both Indo-European and Uralic, shows that horse domestication is a fundamental Turkic innovation. It is no accident that the Botai culture is a khazak culture, belonging to the Turkic-speaking area, and not to the IE-, or Uralic-speaking one! Myths and dogmas are hard to die! (M.A.)"
According to V. Pisani (1974, 14) "Proto-Sanskrit was the language of a ruling class, which was composed of Türkic-speaking riders of the southern Russian steppe and priests of Caucasian origin."
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Turkic & Burushaski:
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Altaic & Dravidian
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[...] a form of Altaic, the ancient central Asiatic language that is the basis of Turkish, was the dominant language of the Indian subcontinent prior to the introduction of the Indo-European Sanskrit. Apparently, the subsequently evolving Sanskritic (Indo-Iranian) languages largely supplanted the pre-existing Altaic form in the northern and central parts of the sub-continent; [...] .
THEY WERE PROTO TURKS !
haha, you're not very smart, are you? none of this proves that the Scythians were Turks; however, it does prove that the Turks of Central Asia have been heavily influenced by Indo-Iranians. The Central Asian Turks are related to the Scythians through cultural mixing, but that doesn't mean that the ancient Scythians were Turks. These studies simply prove that Turkic people in Central Asia aren't really that Turkic.
My direct YDNA ancestor, Arpad, ties genetic tests to Scythian King Ügyek. Confirmed with my direct ties to the Scottish clan Drummond then to the Girardi Von Castell family changed to Gerardi in Italy. Arpad dynasty member from George then younger branches.
I didn't even know about them until mytrueancestrydna test showed me I am matching almost every sample they found from Scythians..Under the category of Gelonian/Helonian Scythians they got 10 dna samples , was found in the system and I am matching to 7 of them with high segment and percentage. Thanks for the video .
I can add here this too for those who is interested in geneology and history . I am a very mix person and here is my dna result:
I got tested in ancestrydna and also tried some other companies including mytrueancestrydna and I have Persian, Sarmatian, Scythian, Cimmerian, Byzantinian and more in my ancient dna result and my outliers are from Bronze age Armenia and Russia . In my modern time dna resut has Iranian-Persian, Eastern Europe-Russia , Greece-Balkans, (Caucasus) Armenia-Georgia-Ireland and Scotland- Mongolia( central and north asia ) , Central asia -South , Baltics and a little of Japan .
DNA testing companies give different and contradicting results 'cause they're scams.
Awesome video! Thanks!
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There are still debates on whether Scythians originated from early Turkic tribes, or not if memory serves.
It seems like the steppe culture, was dominated by a Golden Line of dynasties, and some people consider the original culture actually was dictated by these people
Gokturk Khanate is the first Turkic Khanate, right? But the weird part of it, is that almost every single early Gokturk leader description suggest that they're blue eyed, reddish haired, fair skinned. The original Ashina clan, apparently did not really appear the infamous mongoloid type at all.
Instead, from Altai mountains, the Turks emerged, in time they got the more mongoloid types in features and Turkic language was clearly their main language. Albeit the clans under the ashinas may have spoken various ones.
The whole history of steppes is vastly challenging because of the lack of written materials. Everything is shrouded and various debates can be brought up constnatly.
I’m Bulgarian and scythes are among our ancestors. Actually they are ancestors of Bulgars, who later on were assimilated by Slavs (Slavs also assimilated Thracians). The information shared is quite scarce but still it’s something. Scythes are ancestors of multiple nowadays folks in central and Eastern Europe and we love this part of our heritage.
IRANIC TRIBE !!!
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yes of course they did, that is correct.
Persians are not the only Iranic people, you also have Alans, Scytihans, Sarmatians etc, etc, Ossetians, Kurds, Pashtons of today etc ....
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They were proto Turks all dna results ,linguistic , cultural , historical facts proved it. If you wanna cry , go on ;)
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Scythians are an iranic tribe. The confusion comes when late scholars called everyone in the region Scythians
Scythians were not iranian or indo-european. First of all scythians' religion, culture and life style is nothing to do with iran or europan. They are steppe nomads and living like tatars not iranians. Iranians have never been in that region. In 568 AD Göktürk Khaganate's ruler Ilteris Khagan sended a letter to Roman emperor II. Justinos with a Sogdian envoy named Maniach. When Sogdian presented letter to II. Justinos he said letter written in Scythian language. There are too many examples like this. 15th and 16th century European historians frequently declared that Turks and Tatars are descendants of Scythians. Not cultural nor lingual Scythians nothing to do with Iranians or Slavs. These are unfounded claims.
@ Thats right not iranian but iranic. They have no relation to modern Iran iranian, but were cousins, also there language is indo-iranian. Thing is Turks eventually migrated from Western China and mixed with the Sogdians, Alans, Massagatae, Parthians the Iranic tribes. So it is true that Iranic history also became Turkic history.
Aswell Modern day Ossetians are related to the Sythians as told through there own history and speak the indo-iranian language
@@ElectricNxt Kok Turks originate from Southern Siberia exactly like the Scythians and Xiongnu (Asian Huns).
interesting overview of Scythian history, and the history of Russian archeology, would have enjoyed more details, actually any history video, that cites evidence specifically, as well as references to Herodotus and Thucydides... enjoyed it though, many thanks!
I am Turk, I am Scythian, I am Turanian !
@Marko Milivojević Rust Yes
@Marko Milivojević Rust why?
@Marko Milivojević Rust who were they?
@Marko Milivojević Rust :D Ok
Scythians, Sarmatians and Alans were IRANIAN PEOPLES.
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Persian Warrior they ruled over Iranian people, they were not native to the region.
Yes exactly, they were an Iranian tribe
Mokh7777 they weren’t ethnic Iranians.
Eygpt is about the river Styx. Scythia (the C is a hard C so sounds like K) is about the river Alph. Both are underground, both are part of huge aquifers. Styx flows into the Nile while Alph feeds the northern aquifer that must have an outlet or outlets in Northern Asia. This whole area has a philosophical tradition that is not well classified though found very deeply embedded in European culture. It does conflict with modernism which finds all of its cultural inspiration in Judeo/Christian attitudes that are not to be found on the Northside of the Caucusus Mountains.
Scythians were not the ancestors of turks nor mongols. They were Iranians and their only decedents are the Wakhi and Ossetians.
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Please explain why the inhabitants of Kizil claim to be Scythian decendants with artifacts to prove that Scythians were there but the 2 languages which are spoken by the Kizil people are Turkic and Russian? By the way the word Kizil is a Turkic word for Red “blood Red “ in fact
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@@Leverage75 Because they underwent language replacement after the invasions of the Turks. Can you explain why people of African origin living in a country called Jamaica speak ENGLISH language and that is their official language?
@@SL92018 you comparison is nonsense, you are comparing people taken as slaves using the language of the slave master as opposed to people who are natives of the lands they live in, The Kizyl people are Natives to Kizyl and there name is as Turkic as they themselves are, if you Reseach Kurganism it clearly shows you and history states that both Scythians and Turkics are related
Indo-aryan jat : we're scythian saka
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They also helped save Gondor from Mordor
Spears shall be shaken! shields shall be splintered!
Best comment.
I watched this video to learn more about the Rohirrim - the horse lords.
well maybe thats were tolkien got the idea from
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ALANS, an ancient Iranian tribe of the northern (Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Massagete) group, known to classical writers from the first centuries A.D. (see, e.g., Seneca, Thyestes 630; Annaeus Lucan, Pharsalia8.223, 10.454; Lucian, Toxaris 51, 54, 55, 60; Ptolemy, Geographia 6.14.3, 9, 11; and other sources below). Their name appears in Greek as Alanoi, in Latin as Alani or Halani. The same tribes, or affiliated ones, are mentioned as the Asaioi (Ptolemy 5.9.16), Rhoxolanoi, Aorsoi, Sirakoi, and Iazyges (Strabo 2.5.7, 7.2.4; 11.2.1, 11.5.8; 7.2.4). In early times the main mass of the Alans was settled north of the Caspian and Black seas. Later they also occupied the Crimea and considerable territory in the northern Caucasus.
The history of the Alans can be divided into three periods: (1) from the beginning of the Christian era to the great migration of peoples; (2) from that period to the Mongol invasion; (3) subsequent to the Mongol invasion. During the first period, the Alans appear as a nomadic, warlike, pastoral people who were professional warriors and took service, at various times, with the Romans, Parthians, and Sasanians. Their cavalry was particularly renowned. They participated in Mithridates’ wars with Rome (chronicled by Lucan), as well as in Roman campaigns in Armenia, Media, and Parthia in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. (see Josephus, Jewish Wars7.244-51, Antiquities 18.97; cf. accounts in Moses of Khoren, History of the Armenians [Langlois, Historiens II, pp. 105-06, 125] and the Georgian Chronicle [Kartlis tskhovreba, in M. F. Brosset and D. I. Chubinov, Histoire de la Georgie I, St. Petersburg, 1849]). Ammianus Marcellinus (31.2) describes the Alans’ nomadic economy and warlike customs.
The invasion of the Huns split the Alans into two parts, the European and the Caucasian. Some of the European Alans were drawn into the migration of peoples from eastern into western Europe. With the Germanic tribes of Visigoths and Vandals they passed into Gaul and Spain, some even reaching North Africa. The Alans fought on the side of the Romans in the battle of the Catalaunian Fields (A.D. 451), when Aetius defeated Attila, chief of the Huns. In 461 and 464 they made incursions into Italy. After Attila’s death they struggled, together with the Germanic tribes, to free themselves from Hun domination. Large Alan hordes settled along the middle course of the Loire in Gaul under King Sangiban and on the lower Danube with King Candac (the historian Jordanes sprang from the latter group). Another settlement is indicated by the name of the Spanish province Catalonia, which is but a slight deformation of Goth-Alania, “province of the Goths and Alans.” The French proper name “Alain” and English “Alan” are an inheritance from the tribe. The Alans also left an imprint on Celtic folk-poetry, e.g., the cycle of legends concerning King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table (see M. Hesse, “Iranisches Sagengut im Christlichen Epos,” Atlantis 1937, pp. 621-28; J. H. Grisward, “Le motif de l’épée jetée au lac: la mort d’Arthur et la mort de Batradz,” Romania 90, 1969, pp. 289-340). Part of the European Alans remained in the lands bordering the Black Sea, including the Crimea.
The Caucasian Alans occupied part of the Caucasian plain and the foothills of the main mountain chain from the headwaters of the Kuban river and its tributary, the Zelenchuk (in the west), to the Daryal gorge (in the east). They became sedentary and took to cattle-breeding and agriculture. Towns developed, elements of state organization appeared, and political and cultural ties were established with Byzantium, Georgia, Abkhazia [see Abḵāz], the Khazars, and Russia. Dynastic marriages were concluded with these countries. From the 5th century on, Christian propaganda was conducted, first by Byzantine, later also by Georgian, missionaries. The Alans adopted Christianity in the 10th century, and an Alan episcopal see was created.
In 244/857 Boḡā, a general of the caliph of Baghdad, invaded Transcaucasia and the northern Caucasus, devastating Georgia, Abkhazia, the Alan country, and the Khazar lands. The Alans soon recovered, however, and restored their state. They are often mentioned by medieval writers, both western (Procopius of Caesarea, Menander, Theophanes of Byzantium, Constantine Porphyrogenitus) and Arab and Persian. The latter use the name “Alān” or “Ās”; and in Russian chronicles and Hungarian sources the form “Yas” is found. In the 4th/10th century the Arab historian Masʿūdī indicates that the Alan kingdom stretched from Daghestan to Abkhazia. He describes its prosperity: “The Alan king (can) muster 30,000 horsemen. He is powerful, very strong and influential (among?) the kings. The kingdom consists of an uninterrupted series of settlements; when the cock crows (in one of them), the answer comes from the other parts of the kingdom, because the villages are intermingled and close together” (trans. V. Minorsky, A History of Sharvan and Darband, Cambridge, 1958, pp. 156-60). The anonymous Ḥodūd al-ʿālam (trans. Minorsky, pp. 83, 161, 318, 445) describes Alania as a vast country with 1,000 settlements; the people included both Christians and idol-worshipers, mountaineers and plain-dwellers. The text makes the important statement that, in the north, the Alans bordered on the Hungarians and the Bulgars (the ancestors of the Chuvash). In the east they gave their name to the Daryal gorge, called “Gate of the Alans” (Arabic Bāb al-Lān, Persian Dar-e Alān, hence Daryal).
The Mongol invasion of the 7th/13th century and Tamerlane’s wars in the 8th/14th proved fatal to the Alan state. Its organization was destroyed, and the population suffered heavy loss. Ebn al-Aṯīr reports: “The Tatars attacked the Alans; they massacred them, committed many outrages, plundered and seized prisoners, and marched on against the Qipchaqs” (XII, p. 252; for the events of 1221 A.D., see Camb. Hist. Iran V, p. 311). The remnants of the Alans broke up into three groups. One retreated into the foothills and gorges of the central Caucasus and lives there up to the present [see Ossetes], numbering some 400,000. The people of their eastern branch call themselves “Ir”, those of the western branch “Digor.” The name “Alan” survives among them, in the form “Allon”, only in folklore. (Russian “Osetiny” is from Georgian Oseti, “Alania.” The Georgians had long called the Alans Os- or Ovs- and their country Oset-.) A second group of Alans migrated with the Qipchaqs (Comani) into Europe, settling in Hungary. The territory they occupied is to this day called Jászság, “province of the Yas;” and its capital is Jászberény. They preserved their language and ethnic identity until the 15th century, but gradually adopted the Hungarian language and became assimilated. The third group took service under the Mongol khans. According to the Chinese chronicle Yuan-shi, these “Asu” played an important role in further Mongol expansion. The Catholic missionary John de Marignolli, who spent five years in China, states that there were up to 30,000 Ās there (H. Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither III [Hakluyt Society, second ser., no. 37], London, 1914, pp. 180ff.). In the course of time they perished in warfare or were absorbed into the local population.
The name “Alan” is derived from Old Iranian *arya-, “Aryan,” and so is cognate with “Īrān” (from the gen. plur. *aryānām). The ancient Alan language may, to some extent, be reconstructed on the basis of modern Ossetic (after excluding the latter’s Turkic and Caucasian additions). The Alans created no writing, and no texts survive in their language except an inscription in Greek letters on a tombstone from the headwaters of the Kuban (Grund. Iran. Phil. I, Anhang, p. 31). A few sentences are recorded by the Byzantine author Tzetzēs (Gerhardt, “Alanen und Osseten,” pp. 37-51). Various personal, ethnic, and place names are also known (see M. Vasmer, Die Iranier in Südrussland, Leipzig, 1923, pp. 25-29). This material at least indicates clearly the Iranian character of the Alan language.
Beautiful video, loved learning more about the Scythians
Same.
Agreed.
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You should make one
Herodotus wrote that the Scythians ( or Saka ) were a heterogeneous group , having different customs and languages ( Minns 1971 )
The Scythians were an Iranian or proto- Turkic steppe nomadic group that inhabited the southern steppes of Russia during the ancient period. They were gradually replaced by other nomadic groups. The Byzantines, however, commonly referred to all nomads regardless of location as Scythians, even during the medieval period.
Timothy May. “The Training of an Inner Asian Nomad Army in the Pre-Modern Period.” The Journal of Military History, vol. 70, no. 3, 2006, pp. 617-635.
Second Theory is True,because Scythians were genetically %0.00 iranian
Contemporary descendants of western Scythian groups are found among various groups in the Caucasus and Central Asia, while similarities to eastern Scythian are found to be more widespread, but almost exclusively among Turkic language speaking (formerly) nomadic groups, particularly from the Kipchak branch of Turkic languages (Supplementary Note 1).
Unterländer, M., Palstra, F., Lazaridis, I. et al.Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe. Nat Commun 8, 14615 (2017).
We observed particularly high similarity between the Tagar and Classic Scythians from the North Pontic region.
In a comparison of our Tagar series with modern populations in Eurasia, we detected similarity between the Tagar group and some modern Turkic-speaking populations (with the exception of the Indo-Iranian Tajik population) (Fig 7; S2 Table). Among the modern Turkic-speaking groups, populations from the western part of the Eurasian steppe belt, such as Bashkirs from the Volga-Ural region and Siberian Tatars from the West Siberian forest-steppe zone, were more similar to the Tagar group than modern Turkic-speaking populations of the Altay-Sayan mountain system (including the Khakassians from the Minusinsk basin) (Fig 7).
Based on our results, we can preliminarily conclude that there was genetic continuity, at least partially, between the Early, the Middle and the Late Tagar populations. We did not find evidence of extensive gene exchange between the Tagar population and any genetically distinct (with respect to the mtDNA pool) human groups.
Maternal genetic features of the Iron Age Tagar population from Southern Siberia (1st millennium BC)
Pilipenko AS, Trapezov RO, Cherdantsev SV, Babenko VN, Nesterova MS, et al. (2018)Maternal genetic features of the Iron Age Tagar population from Southern Siberia (1st millennium BC). PLOS ONE 13(9): e0204062.
Arzhan-2, the archaeological site of world significance, a national treasure of peoples of Tuva and Russia, located in the «Valley of Kings» (Piy-Khemsk District, Tyva Republic), was investigated in 2001-2004 by the Central Asian Archaeological Expedition of the State Hermitage Museum headed by K.V. Chugunov. The sites has been dated to the 7th c. BC and attributed to the Scythian-Siberian cultural community. When exploring the «royal» burial of the early Scythian site of Arzhan-2, the scientists faced the questions of the origin of the buried, periodization and chronology of the monument, its archaeological-cultural attribution, the autochthonous nature of the population that left it, and its relationship with other Eurasian early nomadic cultures. The present study is addressing the most important issue of the appearance of the buried people and characteristics of their anthropological type. The material for the study was comprised of male and female skulls from burial 5 of Arzhan-2 mound. The article describes in detail the process of reconstruction of the physical appearance of the deceased and provides examples of calculating ante mortem parameters based on craniometric measurements. The complex stages of preliminary work related to the restoration of skulls and manufacturing of their exact copies are highlighted. The results of the physical appearance reconstruction are presented in the form of visual museum objects - sculptural portraits. The scientific reconstruction of the ante mortem appearance on skulls of the «king» and «queen» was carried out in the Laboratory of Anthropological Reconstruction of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences by anthropologists Drs E.V. Veselovskaya and R.M. Galeev. In anthropological terms, the buried show a peculiar mosaic of Caucasoid and Mongoloid features. They are characterized by brachycephaly and dome-shaped head, with notably developed rugosity of the supercilium in the man and its absence in the woman. For the man, an average width of the face and a narrow forehead of medium height are noted. The woman has broad face and forehead, the height of the forehead is average. Both portraits are characterized by prominent position of eyeballs and large eyes. Man’s nose is short, prominent, with convex dorsum. Woman’s nose has a wavy dorsum, and is slightly prominent. On the male portrait, the cheekbones are moderate, on the female one - high and prominent. Faces of the «royal» persons are flattened in the upper part, with a certain degree of alveolar prognathism. The lower jaw of the man is medium in size, narrow in the corners. For the woman, some gracility of the lower jaw can be noted.
Veselovskaya, E.V. & Galeev, Ravil. (2020). Anthropological reconstruction of the physical appearance of the «king» and «queen» from the early Scythian burial and memorial complex of Arzhan-2. VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII. 112-122. 10.20874/2071-0437-2020-49-2-10.
This is fast becoming one of my favorite history channels. Your story-telling is awesome.
Thanks buddy!
You’re not doing too shabby yourself, HM. Nice to see you here
@@HistoryTime hi, Scythians were eastern and northern Iranian tribes right ? Speaking iranic language.
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Fun fact: The Danish word "Skytte" (Marksman) is named after the Scythians
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Wow, det er jo oplagt, havde aldrig tænkt over det, tak!
That's no surprise; they were lethal archers, after all...
Completely false! Both words in Scythian and Danish come from the Indo-European root *skeud- “to shoot”, see English “shoot”...
lmao everyone is trying to claim the Scythians as their own ancestors.
given their geographic / central range that touched upon so many other areas, their mobility, power and wealth, a genetic influence is likely as well. When 23&Me included Mongol and East Asian in my smorgasbord, I was not surprised. Horse cultures traded human as well as animal genetics.
I think Herodotus wrote that Scythian women had to kill 3 enemy before they could marry, so I don't know if the women were just "victims" - they may have chosen their own mates in a more active manner. They scandalized the Greco-Romans, as did the Celts where women owned land, were judges, warriors, and kept their property in a divorce.
Seriously. Its nuts. Hearing Europeans Turks and Iranians trying to claim them instead of looking at the commonalities that exist in all of them. Its kind of sad, really.
Mostly Turkic peoples trying to take credit for Iranian history.
+Robert Paulson the Turks lmao.
For me, Scytians seem to be the descendents of the original "Indo Europeans"
Rafael Melo I think so too.
Rafael Melo I've always considered them descendants from the people of the steppes. Asia Minor
They were brothers Skif r1b-dna that is one head of eagle and another is r1a y-dna Slaven.
Book of Veles has some info about it.
And there is some information that can be found in work of Anatoly Fomenko, but he wrote 22 books and i just started, anyway channel newearth has some info.
They are Rome, they r creators of aryan civilization
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Not genetically, the further east in europe you go the high the percentanges of yamnya or corded ware ( european branch of indo- european) this is recent develomple from studyign genetic material from old bones. What they found was europe is a mix of Middle east the farmers, hunter gathers, and asiatic steppe ppl ( who also happen to have soem asiatic siberian dna related to native americans). The vast majority of western europeans have higher middle eastern farmer dna with some steppe asiatic( probably indoeuropean) but the percentages change when u reach russia where the steppe dna is higher. Remeber they are a mix of all three regardless which populaton we are talking about just percentages are different depending on where you go.
Striking similarity to the standing stones and burial mounds all over North Western Europe.
Probably a protoindoeuropean idea. Then again putting stones up may simply be a human idea.
Menhirs, Dolmens are something very european yes
They are the ones who moved to Ireland and got mixed with the locals.
Saka people moved from Altay to all over Eurasia. It was their land they transferred themselves without a war. Burial culture and stone writings prove their Turkish Ancestry.
@@jonam7589 Scots came from Saka people. SCOTS wrote to Pope in 1320 to tell him about their ancestry
Saka people were Proto Turkish speakers all over Eurasia
*_Aryan peoples such as the Medes, Persians and Scythians have an exquisite history and culture which is still present within their descendants, Kurds, Iranians, Afghans and so many to this day. What a magnificent people full of potential._*
I may have fallen for lore, not fact, but I read: the Scythians were never conquered by Darius nor Alexander. The latter signed a treaty with them, and referred to them as The Royal Scythians. they invented the pottery wheel, and the double-bellows that enabled them to be among the first to work iron. Greek historians wrote accounts of the vaping cannabis by throwing hemp seeds on heated rocks, then putting a blanket over themselves and the stones....”they came out howling and laughing....” They did seem highly religious, having the great white stag, who bore the celestial bodies on his antlers, and was the bringer of messages from God.
I got a good laugh from the cannabis story that would have been funny to see. I never heard of the great white stag bearing celestial bodies or messages from God. May I please ask if you can recommend where I can read this. I find it very interesting.
@@oliviaw2002 Look for info on the Siberian Ice Maiden aka the Ukok Princess.
@@wildcrocus Thank you!
Scyhians were originally white. Steppe dna is European. Mongols and Turkic peoples mixed with steppe peoples but they are completely different races. The Scythians too mixed with asians and eventually became non white, but they were descended from the sintashta and corded ware cultures of Europe
Survive the Jive true we are non whites now jatts of north India and Pakistan... we do sometimes have green blue eye features and brunette and blonde hair in kids . I remember my nephew when he was a kid had pure golden blonde hair but when he grow up his hair turned brunette.. one of my cousin has green blue eyes.. it’s not uncommon among us..jatts have fair to wheatish complexion with Nordic features straight pointy noses with a distinct jawline and tall height
Disciples of Horus/Shemsu Hor origin, along with the Ubaid DNA possibly. The Paracas skull is caucasian in origin. We wuz long-headed GIANTS!
The Cathars and the Disciples of Horus practiced astral travel and soul ascension as a science so the pope/Vatican was in trouble with its pale new religion. Origin=Shemsu Hor and Ubaid.
St. Patrick's claim to fame was tearing down 300 Irish/Aryan universities for the pope. Can't have the people finding their own light within, can we now?
Survive the Jive wtf are you believing? Central Asians black or what? LoL
Yes, the Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans are all Iranian peoples. The only living descendants are the Ossetians in the Caucasus Mountains.
04:20: Actually, the animal art style is reminiscent of the style represented by the intricate wood carvings found around the doors of Nordic stave churches. Those carvings were made around 900 years ago, and probably constitute the last great flowering of an ancient, pre-Christian, Indo-European artistic tradition.
By the way, those who enjoy presentations of this kind should check out the marvelous documentaries made by Asha Logos, as well as the book The Horse, the Wheel and Language by David Anthony.
Asha Logos, what a channel. I feel like he is the only youtube historian left who puts effort into his researches and actually is doing research. I am so fed up with those historians who just make videos about wikipedia articles.
This video here is ok and gives a quick overview about the expansion and culture but it misleads in so many other ways. No, they were not a bunch of different races sticking to the same cultural norms. They were one race with a distinct phenotype similar to skandinavians today. They were a bunch of different tribes though who spread all over eurasia so many people today have cultural or genetical heritage from them.
@@aberger6666 Robert Sepehr has videos on the Scythians you should check it out .
@@killeryhiltons8499 thx. Will check out. Looks like i channel i would like.
Everything I’ve read indicates the Scythians were Indo-Iranian tribesmen, not Turkic or Mongol as this video suggests.
ALANS, an ancient Iranian tribe of the northern (Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Massagete) group, known to classical writers from the first centuries A.D. (see, e.g., Seneca, Thyestes 630; Annaeus Lucan, Pharsalia 8.223, 10.454; Lucian, Toxaris 51, 54, 55, 60; Ptolemy, Geographia 6.14.3, 9, 11; and other sources below). Their name appears in Greek as Alanoi, in Latin as Alani or Halani. The same tribes, or affiliated ones, are mentioned as the Asaioi (Ptolemy 5.9.16), Rhoxolanoi, Aorsoi, Sirakoi, and Iazyges (Strabo 2.5.7, 7.2.4; 11.2.1, 11.5.8; 7.2.4). In early times the main mass of the Alans was settled north of the Caspian and Black seas. Later they also occupied the Crimea and considerable territory in the northern Caucasus.
The history of the Alans can be divided into three periods: (1) from the beginning of the Christian era to the great migration of peoples; (2) from that period to the Mongol invasion; (3) subsequent to the Mongol invasion. During the first period, the Alans appear as a nomadic, warlike, pastoral people who were professional warriors and took service, at various times, with the Romans, Parthians, and Sasanians. Their cavalry was particularly renowned. They participated in Mithridates’ wars with Rome (chronicled by Lucan), as well as in Roman campaigns in Armenia, Media, and Parthia in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. (see Josephus, Jewish Wars 7.244-51, Antiquities 18.97; cf. accounts in Moses of Khoren, History of the Armenians [Langlois, Historiens II, pp. 105-06, 125] and the Georgian Chronicle [Kartlis tskhovreba, in M. F. Brosset and D. I. Chubinov, Histoire de la Georgie I, St. Petersburg, 1849]). Ammianus Marcellinus (31.2) describes the Alans’ nomadic economy and warlike customs.
The invasion of the Huns split the Alans into two parts, the European and the Caucasian. Some of the European Alans were drawn into the migration of peoples from eastern into western Europe. With the Germanic tribes of Visigoths and Vandals they passed into Gaul and Spain, some even reaching North Africa. The Alans fought on the side of the Romans in the battle of the Catalaunian Fields (A.D. 451), when Aetius defeated Attila, chief of the Huns. In 461 and 464 they made incursions into Italy. After Attila’s death they struggled, together with the Germanic tribes, to free themselves from Hun domination. Large Alan hordes settled along the middle course of the Loire in Gaul under King Sangiban and on the lower Danube with King Candac (the historian Jordanes sprang from the latter group). Another settlement is indicated by the name of the Spanish province Catalonia, which is but a slight deformation of Goth-Alania, “province of the Goths and Alans.” The French proper name “Alain” and English “Alan” are an inheritance from the tribe. The Alans also left an imprint on Celtic folk-poetry, e.g., the cycle of legends concerning King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table (see M. Hesse, “Iranisches Sagengut im Christlichen Epos,” Atlantis 1937, pp. 621-28; J. H. Grisward, “Le motif de l’épée jetée au lac: la mort d’Arthur et la mort de Batradz,” Romania 90, 1969, pp. 289-340). Part of the European Alans remained in the lands bordering the Black Sea, including the Crimea.
The Caucasian Alans occupied part of the Caucasian plain and the foothills of the main mountain chain from the headwaters of the Kuban river and its tributary, the Zelenchuk (in the west), to the Daryal gorge (in the east). They became sedentary and took to cattle-breeding and agriculture. Towns developed, elements of state organization appeared, and political and cultural ties were established with Byzantium, Georgia, Abkhazia [see Abḵāz], the Khazars, and Russia. Dynastic marriages were concluded with these countries. From the 5th century on, Christian propaganda was conducted, first by Byzantine, later also by Georgian, missionaries. The Alans adopted Christianity in the 10th century, and an Alan episcopal see was created.
In 244/857 Boḡā, a general of the caliph of Baghdad, invaded Transcaucasia and the northern Caucasus, devastating Georgia, Abkhazia, the Alan country, and the Khazar lands. The Alans soon recovered, however, and restored their state. They are often mentioned by medieval writers, both western (Procopius of Caesarea, Menander, Theophanes of Byzantium, Constantine Porphyrogenitus) and Arab and Persian. The latter use the name “Alān” or “Ās”; and in Russian chronicles and Hungarian sources the form “Yas” is found. In the 4th/10th century the Arab historian Masʿūdī indicates that the Alan kingdom stretched from Daghestan to Abkhazia. He describes its prosperity: “The Alan king (can) muster 30,000 horsemen. He is powerful, very strong and influential (among?) the kings. The kingdom consists of an uninterrupted series of settlements; when the cock crows (in one of them), the answer comes from the other parts of the kingdom, because the villages are intermingled and close together” (trans. V. Minorsky, A History of Sharvan and Darband, Cambridge, 1958, pp. 156-60). The anonymous Ḥodūd al-ʿālam (trans. Minorsky, pp. 83, 161, 318, 445) describes Alania as a vast country with 1,000 settlements; the people included both Christians and idol-worshipers, mountaineers and plain-dwellers. The text makes the important statement that, in the north, the Alans bordered on the Hungarians and the Bulgars (the ancestors of the Chuvash). In the east they gave their name to the Daryal gorge, called “Gate of the Alans” (Arabic Bāb al-Lān, Persian Dar-e Alān, hence Daryal).
The Mongol invasion of the 7th/13th century and Tamerlane’s wars in the 8th/14th proved fatal to the Alan state. Its organization was destroyed, and the population suffered heavy loss. Ebn al-Aṯīr reports: “The Tatars attacked the Alans; they massacred them, committed many outrages, plundered and seized prisoners, and marched on against the Qipchaqs” (XII, p. 252; for the events of 1221 A.D., see Camb. Hist. Iran V, p. 311). The remnants of the Alans broke up into three groups. One retreated into the foothills and gorges of the central Caucasus and lives there up to the present [see Ossetes], numbering some 400,000. The people of their eastern branch call themselves “Ir”, those of the western branch “Digor.” The name “Alan” survives among them, in the form “Allon”, only in folklore. (Russian “Osetiny” is from Georgian Oseti, “Alania.” The Georgians had long called the Alans Os- or Ovs- and their country Oset-.) A second group of Alans migrated with the Qipchaqs (Comani) into Europe, settling in Hungary. The territory they occupied is to this day called Jászság, “province of the Yas;” and its capital is Jászberény. They preserved their language and ethnic identity until the 15th century, but gradually adopted the Hungarian language and became assimilated. The third group took service under the Mongol khans. According to the Chinese chronicle Yuan-shi, these “Asu” played an important role in further Mongol expansion. The Catholic missionary John de Marignolli, who spent five years in China, states that there were up to 30,000 Ās there (H. Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither III [Hakluyt Society, second ser., no. 37], London, 1914, pp. 180ff.). In the course of time they perished in warfare or were absorbed into the local population.
The name “Alan” is derived from Old Iranian *arya-, “Aryan,” and so is cognate with “Īrān” (from the gen. plur. *aryānām). The ancient Alan language may, to some extent, be reconstructed on the basis of modern Ossetic (after excluding the latter’s Turkic and Caucasian additions). The Alans created no writing, and no texts survive in their language except an inscription in Greek letters on a tombstone from the headwaters of the Kuban (Grund. Iran. Phil. I, Anhang, p. 31). A few sentences are recorded by the Byzantine author Tzetzēs (Gerhardt, “Alanen und Osseten,” pp. 37-51). Various personal, ethnic, and place names are also known (see M. Vasmer, Die Iranier in Südrussland, Leipzig, 1923, pp. 25-29). This material at least indicates clearly the Iranian character of the Alan language.
Persian Warrior Good post. Sarmation cavalrymen who came to Britain during Roman Times were given land in my area of Lancashire UK when they retired. I have often wondered if they gave rise to the legend of King Arthurs Knights.
Persian Warrior Saka‘s are turkic.
Alan is a ancient turkic word.
While there, why not say, "Arabs, Somalian, Aztecs are Turkic"?! claim the lot, all yours...
Persian Warrior 6000 year's Babylon . we not in alot of things being slaves in Babylon Islam Egypt'Africa .Congo where they segregated the Tribe's and worked was if black Smith that be name Today Smith so on
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You left out how scythians like to hotbox in small 4ft tipi
And how it made them weirdly very happy.
@@evershumor1302 what?
@@htoodoh5770 Herodotus implied they where burning weed in small tents on hot stones. "The Scyths, delighted, shout for joy, and this vapour serves them instead of a waterbath." He explains how hemp is used to clean the body and that it makes them really happy.
@@evershumor1302 Oh this guy talking about weed.
@@htoodoh5770 that's what I made of it.
We Iranians/Persians and the Scythian are closely related.
Scythian DNA... The Iron Age Scythians are arrayed along a cline from Yamnaya to Ami (a population of East Asian ancestry that experienced no admixture), consistent with having ancestry from populations genetically similar to these two groups.
Not a single ancient sample from Central Asian Scythians clustered with Europeans. All ancient samples were in a cline between West-Eurasians and East-Eurasians, with increasing East-Eurasian ancestry at the end of the Scythian period. Scythian samples in Europe were largely European thought.
Cool video. I just want to point out that the Scythians were an indo-european people and were not related to the turko-mongolic people who invaded later on from the east and north
Punished Rustles Yep. They came from the same steppe so were culturally related.
Scythians were definitely not a homogenous group, they were nomadic, nomadic don't judge people by their race, so please don't use your narrow peasant mind to define who they were.they were more like Eurasian mix type, but more of northern and central Asian and eastern central Europe, at the end I would say they were nomadic nation's common ancestry, they were one of the pinnacles of nomadic culture. They were the protector of earth, unlike "civilized" peasants, who can;t live harmony with the nature, always desire more, even it's gonna ruin the soil they are living in, if today's world ruler is one of the descendants of Scythians, world will definitely be a better place, no racism, no extremist religious people. no harm is done to mother earth, no evil nuclear bomb and any other evil creatures gonna pollute our precious land, no border controller, everybody moving freely, no first world, third world.Everybody will be truly created equal, unlike nowadays hypocrisy western culture which is ruling the world and leading earth to a total destruction, The nomadic culture more like a indigenous culture of earth itself, which always emphasized the nature's importance, the destruction of nature would be a severe crime, and will receive serious punishment. Western and their so-called modern culture are not built on the harmony between man and nature, it's about man above nature, and destroy nature for its own benefits, even the consequences of their action gonna be devastating, they will still do it, for the profit and "development". Western culture is more like an alien culture, highly possible inherited from some invasive creature from an already being destroyed planet, so they are by nature aggressive and disrespectful, and always think they are better than the indigenous earthling. The earth we were living in now will eventually be being destroyed by these evil power, and now they were already starting to look for another planet for them to destroy!!
Imperator Franque
I didn't say about race, I say about culture. Use you little brain. You racist.
Imperator Franque
And aren't nuclear weapon and all your Abraham religion leading us to the doom,you guys can never live in harmony with others and nature, all you expected are the Armageddon or your Islamic term for apocalypse, you were all waiting for the end of the world,because your alien god was from an other planet,they don't really care about earth,all their care was total destruction of the planet, on the other hand, nomadic culture always think the nature before the people,if the world is leading by nomads, nuclear weapon will never be invented, earth will rarely be polluted.
Why should that matter?
I think Scythians (East) was turkic confederation just like hunnic empire. They were lifestyle is very close
They were all Iranians
The Scythians were Iranic people but later mixed with Turks or lived with Turks I should say.
I am actually a Scythian warrior. I spend most of my time out raiding and horsing around but do enjoy commenting on UA-cam videos in my down time.
Nice joke.
I'm a scthyian from Iran ,lorestan, assna sycaon=sacson city
My name is arash sarmati scahiya
We are ariyans people
Scthyian are Iranian people with Iranian language
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖we have so many scthyian in Iran(scyistan,assna scyaon in lorestan and khoozestan)and Tajikistan and Pakistan and India
Hahahaha
Lol great comment
The Irish writer, Yeats, Wrote of the Pictish Clane's, He wrote, Out of Iseath's whence they came, Sythians, Horse lords of the Steps.
He lived in 1800's, his information is correct 1500 years after the "fact". I just don't buy the claim that the Sythian's went to Ireland and asked for land, the irish sent them to empty Caledonia - oh and they did'nt bring ladies with them
Jack Duffy Yes, quite true. The round burial barrow shown in video reminds me of Newgrange. The standing stones are also very similar to those found in the British Isles and Ireland. The Picts were noted warriors that were heavily tattooed. The Celtic people were noted horseman (and still are) and have been more focused on raising sheep and cows, pastoral activities, rather than being a sea faring people. I always thought that as odd for a people living on an island in the ocean. And the places in the world where the most red haired people are found are Ireland, Scotland, England, (the USA from people emigrating from there), and an area north of the Caspian Sea! So I believe there is a connection.
@Seán English The book of invasions is interesting if you have another source to back it up since the archeology is not there. "Today scholars regard the Lebor Gabala Erenn as primarily myth rather than history". That is written on this Wikipedia link you sent me. People lived in Scotland before the Scots came and settled the West coast. I live in north east scotland where the DNA is different to that of the Scots who came from Ireland
There's no chance the Scythians ever made it to Ireland. The similarities you see with the Celts is simply because of the fact the Celts came from the Steppes (as did all Indo-Europeans). The Scythians were merely the people "left" on the Steppes who never migrated. In other words the Celts and Scythians share a common ancestor (as do the Germans and Italics, etc).
The ‘c’ in ‘Scythians’ is supposed to be a hard ‘c’ sound: “sKith-...”.
Modern notions of national identity, origin myths and race have tainted our understanding of who we are - and where we come from.
@@EresirThe1st nationalism is a modern notion, used by monarchies and oligarchies to tap into natural tribalism, as a means to control and govern large groups if people. Just like theism, is depends on Otherness, on instilling fear of other, or a false sense of superiority to degrade other. It totally distorts our understanding of history when we look at things through a prism of nation-state, which is a relatively recent invention.
@@EresirThe1st you have no idea what I support, you little pompous blabber mouth.
@@EresirThe1st right, there you go then. Oblivious projection. After starting your comment with aggressive, nonsensical name-calling. Go back to your computer game, I certainly don't have the time or the patience for your crap.
@@EresirThe1st your projections are puerile and your worldview quintessentially adolescent - go get yourself a boyfriend, son. Like I said, I don't have time for your nonsense.
You and your new boyfriend can then run around your parents' house, flapping your arms, pretending to be pointy-eared elves on birds, better than spouting ignorant, racist nonsense on UA-cam.
@Connor Ó Dubhlaoich the nation state is a modern notion, used by monarchies to centralize power and govern people like you.
I cannot believe that you have missed out on the CIRCASSIANS! They were the first horse riders! Khir kas (where the word Caucasus comes from) means riders of the Kafkas mountains! Circassians aren't Russian and they are not slavic nor are they Eastern European.
Circassians are at least 100,000 years old as a nation. (Derived from the article entitled: Ancient populations from different Caucasus regions had strong social connections
Peer-Reviewed Publication
AKSON RUSSIAN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION: Research group from Russia and the United States analyzed samples of obsidian volcanic glass in Kabardino-Balkaria. It turned out that more than 70 thousand years ago, Neanderthals transferred this mineral to distances up to 250 kilometers and used it to manufacture tools. These findings help to understand how populations from different regions communicated in antiquity. The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation and is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports).
Russians are 600-1000 years old, at the most, as a culture. Russians tried to wipe out as many Caucasian peoples as much possible, including Circassians and other Caucasian nations in the Caucasus. Scythians came from Circassian region. Circassia at the time stretched into what is now called Ukraine. There is a town called Cherkasy in Ukraine. Cherkess means Circassian, in Russian language. Russians are not Circassian. (Allow me to re-iterate that fact.). Russians massacred over 2 million Circassians between the 1700's and 1800's. When will Circassians get a mention in history books across the world? Especially since we have been around for over 100,000 years! Paleolothic Caucasian! Peace be to everyone!
Scythians are made up history. In ancient Persian texts the word "Saka" pops up which simply means "nomad" in old Persian. "Sarmatia" is an ancient Greek word that just means "to run, flow". Some Modern historians have decided to replace these words with "Scythian" (Scythe meaning "sickle" in Old English) and manufacture an entire fake history around it.
All of these artifacts you see on the screen do not come from "Scythian burial mounds".
Most of them are the work of ancient Greek settlers along the Black Sea, and some from sites as far-flung as Afghanistan or near Mongolia and western China.
You deserve much more subscribers, great work.
Thank you!
Add text. Just speaking not clear enough!
The step is the womb of nations.
Aniu
Step?
Nah that’s more specifically Anatolia
EWG Steppe*
Simply the centre Caucasian population throughout Eurasia
Fakenews. The scythians are not the ancestors of turks and Mongols. Dislike.
Scythian DNA... The Iron Age Scythians are arrayed along a cline from Yamnaya to Ami (a population of East Asian ancestry that experienced no admixture), consistent with having ancestry from populations genetically similar to these two groups.
Not a single ancient sample from Central Asian Scythians clustered with Europeans. All ancient samples were in a cline between West-Eurasians and East-Eurasians, with increasing East-Eurasian ancestry at the end of the Scythian period. Scythian samples in Europe were largely European thought.
@@hhttmmy8164 Scythian samples in Europe are from 400 years later than the actual Scythians who started their military expeditions from Souther Siberia. The oldest burial sites of Scythians exist in Tuva Republic in Southern Siberia from 9th century BCE. So Scythians were 30 percent East Eurasian ancestry in the begining. Later their gene pools enlarged depending on the geographies they lived because they were living in rather a very big geography. There is big match between Turkish DNA and both Eastern and Western Scythians.
Scythian were one of the Aryan Iranian groups like Persian Median and Parthian..
Fail.
True
I like your academic style and your articulation. I've gained so much new vocabulary just by listening to you. Keep the good work up! :)
Thanks my friend! Much more on the way :)
another turkish "we wuz kangz" video, which makes no sense from a linguistic or genetic standpoint.
What do you accept as a proof? How many books have you read about Turkic people? If you want to learn who was "Kangz" you should spend time on reading books written by Turkologists and many of them were German Russian etc.
Good luck with your miserable life. White my ass
Finnic Patriot turkic central asians like kazakhs descended from the scythians. There are researchs to proof this. Just google it.
Dyna A Only partially. That's the European portion of their admixture. That's like calling Spaniards Native Americans because a large portion of the South-American genome came from Spaniards.
red rose You didn't even read my comment. I said by blood, not by language. Are you blind? Just because Indians speak an indo-european language doesn't make their genes European. Same applies to Finnic people, who are some of the most genetically indo-european people in the world. Why do you think all genetic comparisons between modern populations place Finns right next to Balts and East Slavs? Why do you think comparisons between the genetic samples of archeological cultures and modern populations show Finns clustering the closest with Sintashta and Andronovo cultures, the origin points of proto-indo-iranians and proto-indo-aryans.
Finnic Patriot yes, that is my point. There are comments saying the kazakhs and central asians isnt related to scythians at all, which is not true. Scythians are not kazakhs, but kazakhs surely descended and still related to scythians. They have the same horse culture.
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Best way to debunk what Turks say about Scythians is to look at how other cultures (Greeks and Persians) depicted them as and described them as.
lol we hungarians are the true descendant of scythian people
no my friend huns mongols and turks are different Attila the Hun was called like that and not Attila the Turk for a reason
@Bilge Kül Kagan nope Turks Seljuks, Ottomans, Uyghurs and Gokturks are Turkic. Sychtians are not. We don't know anything about Huns but Asian Huns probably lived side by side with Turks and Mongols. We don't know if huns were Turkic or not but Sychtians are definitely not Turkic.
I am a Turk btw.
@Bilge Kül Kagan Again Sychtiand are not turks.
@Bilge Kül Kagan source please.
My Cats know all about this kind of stuff. They're from the underworld....
Scythian were indo-uropian peoples that were one of Iranian tribes that distributed in iran and Europe. Very river in Ukraine have Iranian language roots.
They're must have been so many kinds of animals back then. Must've been so much of an awesome sight that they had to include it in their artwork so much.
It’s a sad part of modern life- we have so much less exposure to big wild animals. An encounter with one of them is the most natural kind of spirituality
I'm so glad that I finally found a good video on the Scythians!
Check Robert Sepher's videos, about the Tribe of Dan. The lost tribe of Israel
@Helena HezbanîYou're wrong. I do.
Whites are the lost tribes, the choosen people. And that's my heritage.
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MY Pashtun Iranic Schythian Cousins I love you from Fars,Iran
their language was iranic
their religion was iranian religion
and their facee are like indo europen people ( specially slavs )
and Herodotus said they are iranian
turks can't stole history
go back mongolia and gobi desert turks
read about them in britannica
Herodotus never said they were iranian even he said scythians had nothing to do with iranians like persians
Their language was unknown
Their religion was Tengrism
Their faces were Turanid
Herodotus wrote that the Scythians ( or Saka ) were a heterogeneous group , having different customs and languages ( Minns 1971 )
The Scythians were an Iranian or proto- Turkic steppe nomadic group that inhabited the southern steppes of Russia during the ancient period. They were gradually replaced by other nomadic groups. The Byzantines, however, commonly referred to all nomads regardless of location as Scythians, even during the medieval period.
Timothy May. “The Training of an Inner Asian Nomad Army in the Pre-Modern Period.” The Journal of Military History, vol. 70, no. 3, 2006, pp. 617-635.
Second Theory is True,because Scythians were genetically %0.00 iranian
Contemporary descendants of western Scythian groups are found among various groups in the Caucasus and Central Asia, while similarities to eastern Scythian are found to be more widespread, but almost exclusively among Turkic language speaking (formerly) nomadic groups, particularly from the Kipchak branch of Turkic languages (Supplementary Note 1).
Unterländer, M., Palstra, F., Lazaridis, I. et al.Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe. Nat Commun 8, 14615 (2017).
We observed particularly high similarity between the Tagar and Classic Scythians from the North Pontic region.
In a comparison of our Tagar series with modern populations in Eurasia, we detected similarity between the Tagar group and some modern Turkic-speaking populations (with the exception of the Indo-Iranian Tajik population) (Fig 7; S2 Table). Among the modern Turkic-speaking groups, populations from the western part of the Eurasian steppe belt, such as Bashkirs from the Volga-Ural region and Siberian Tatars from the West Siberian forest-steppe zone, were more similar to the Tagar group than modern Turkic-speaking populations of the Altay-Sayan mountain system (including the Khakassians from the Minusinsk basin) (Fig 7).
Based on our results, we can preliminarily conclude that there was genetic continuity, at least partially, between the Early, the Middle and the Late Tagar populations. We did not find evidence of extensive gene exchange between the Tagar population and any genetically distinct (with respect to the mtDNA pool) human groups.
Maternal genetic features of the Iron Age Tagar population from Southern Siberia (1st millennium BC)
Pilipenko AS, Trapezov RO, Cherdantsev SV, Babenko VN, Nesterova MS, et al. (2018)Maternal genetic features of the Iron Age Tagar population from Southern Siberia (1st millennium BC). PLOS ONE 13(9): e0204062.
Arzhan-2, the archaeological site of world significance, a national treasure of peoples of Tuva and Russia, located in the «Valley of Kings» (Piy-Khemsk District, Tyva Republic), was investigated in 2001-2004 by the Central Asian Archaeological Expedition of the State Hermitage Museum headed by K.V. Chugunov. The sites has been dated to the 7th c. BC and attributed to the Scythian-Siberian cultural community. When exploring the «royal» burial of the early Scythian site of Arzhan-2, the scientists faced the questions of the origin of the buried, periodization and chronology of the monument, its archaeological-cultural attribution, the autochthonous nature of the population that left it, and its relationship with other Eurasian early nomadic cultures. The present study is addressing the most important issue of the appearance of the buried people and characteristics of their anthropological type. The material for the study was comprised of male and female skulls from burial 5 of Arzhan-2 mound. The article describes in detail the process of reconstruction of the physical appearance of the deceased and provides examples of calculating ante mortem parameters based on craniometric measurements. The complex stages of preliminary work related to the restoration of skulls and manufacturing of their exact copies are highlighted. The results of the physical appearance reconstruction are presented in the form of visual museum objects - sculptural portraits. The scientific reconstruction of the ante mortem appearance on skulls of the «king» and «queen» was carried out in the Laboratory of Anthropological Reconstruction of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences by anthropologists Drs E.V. Veselovskaya and R.M. Galeev. In anthropological terms, the buried show a peculiar mosaic of Caucasoid and Mongoloid features. They are characterized by brachycephaly and dome-shaped head, with notably developed rugosity of the supercilium in the man and its absence in the woman. For the man, an average width of the face and a narrow forehead of medium height are noted. The woman has broad face and forehead, the height of the forehead is average. Both portraits are characterized by prominent position of eyeballs and large eyes. Man’s nose is short, prominent, with convex dorsum. Woman’s nose has a wavy dorsum, and is slightly prominent. On the male portrait, the cheekbones are moderate, on the female one - high and prominent. Faces of the «royal» persons are flattened in the upper part, with a certain degree of alveolar prognathism. The lower jaw of the man is medium in size, narrow in the corners. For the woman, some gracility of the lower jaw can be noted.
Veselovskaya, E.V. & Galeev, Ravil. (2020). Anthropological reconstruction of the physical appearance of the «king» and «queen» from the early Scythian burial and memorial complex of Arzhan-2. VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII. 112-122. 10.20874/2071-0437-2020-49-2-10.
Early physical analyses have unanimously concluded that the Saka, even those far to the east (e.g. the Pazyryk region), possessed predominantly "Europid" features, although mixed 'Euro-mongoloid" phenotypes also occur, depending on site and period.
Сергей Иванович Руденко (Sergei I. Rudenko) (1970). Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron Age Horsemen. University of California Press. pp. 45-46. ISBN 978-0-520-01395-7. Archived from the original on 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
Some Scythian remains had mtDNA haplogroup U2e, which was once a common European haplogroup. Also found in some of the Tocharian mummies found in China. This is the maternal haplogroup which I carry but I am German on my mother's side.
So that means Khorasan, today's Afghanistan is a go to country to dig deep into the DNA haplogroup of the various iranic and turkic-mongol population to understand and learn more about the Scythians.
Our dating system (BC/AD) was devised by Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk.
Sythians were Iranian peoppes like Sogdians
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