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Scythian catacombs with two entrance pits. Pt. 1. Ritual catacombs [PDF]
One of the burial structure forms among the Scythians of the Northern Black Sea region in the second half of the 5th and the 4th century BCE were catacombs having two or even three entrance pits.
Polin, S.V. , Daragan, M.N.
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Settled rather than saddled Scythians: [PDF]
At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours.
Waghmar, Burzine, Burzine Waghmar
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Tsars and the tsarina of a Scythian royal Aleksandropol’sky kurgan (polo-age structure of buried) [PDF]
According to V.G. Moiseyev's new anthropological polo-age definitions, skulls from the Central tomb of the Aleksandropol’sky kurgan belong to the man enough advanced age for 50 years or more ("tsar"), and the young woman at  ...
Polin, Sergey Vasil’evich
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Ancient “Nomadology” – Knowledge of the Ancients About the Main Issues of Nomadic Studies
Introduction. Based on the study of the ancient literary tradition, the article analyzes the fundamental beliefs of the ancient Greeks and Romans about early nomads, the Scythians and the Sarmatians: origins of nomadism and nomads, their lifestyle ...
Aleksandr P. Medvedev
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Apart from some controversial ones, kurgans are a model of grave architecture frequently used by ancient Eurasian societies in the steppes, with the oldest-known examples of kurgans dating back to the third millennium BC.
Okan Sezer
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Sourceology of Ctesias' Persica: in search of Iranian sources [PDF]
The issue of Iranian sources used by Ctesias has always been disputed in the last two centuries. These sources can be study divided into two groups: written and narrative.
Roozbeh Zarrinkoob +1 more
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Alexander Blok’s Revolutionary Trilogy (“The Twelve,” “The Scythians,” “Catiline”) [PDF]
The article examines three texts by Blok, written almost at the same time. In our opinion, the poet describes the horrors of the Russian revolution; he views it as the coming of the Antichrist. Blok foresees the death not only of the old bourgeois world,
Mark G. Altshuller
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The Complex of Bronze Snaffles from the Area of Malye Semibratnye Barrows
Anapa archaeological museum stores a bronze snaffle complex, which was found on arable lands near Chekon khutor in 2013. The complex was found in the area of the barrow group known as Malye Semibratnye barrows.
Andrey M. Novichikhin
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To the Question of the So Called Sauromatic Mirror from the Oguz Kurgan
The article continues the discussion about the object, which was discovered in the Oguz kurgan and is referred to as the sauromatian “mirror” in the literature. A round disk (with a flat side handle) shows a corrugation on its two sides.
Tatiana M. Kuznetsova
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Some problems in the study of the chronology of the ancient nomadic cultures in Eurasia (9th - 3rd centuries BC) [PDF]
This research is focused on the chronological investigations of ancient nomads belonging to the Scythian cultures which occupied the steppe and forest-steppe zones of Eurasia during the 9th-3rd centuries BC.
Vasiliev, S. +30 more
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