How to pronounce“scyth”in English

Scythian riders rode bareback.

Scythian archers were also famous for their speed shooting, and they could probably estimate-- estimates today are that they could probably release an arrow

So Scythians in contact with the Persians, and Scythians in contact with the Greeks.

for Scythians taste, showing the importance of the horse.

See Scythians tending, hobbling a horse.

The Scythians moved into Eastern Europe, into Hungary and so on, and came up against the Celts.

as Scythians. And they-- their cultures were centered around archery and riding horses.

The Scythian bow and the quiver and those mismatched leg armor, they belonged to a woman.

The Scythian way of life, with opportunities for women unheard of in ancient cultures, other ancient cultures, ensure that mounted nomad culture flourished and dominated

In Scythia, young girls were raised to ride horses and shoot bows and arrows, just like their little brothers.

The Scythians forged an extraordinary combination of sophisticated technologies and unconventional tactics.

The Scythians united, for example, in the sixth century BC to defeat the huge Persian army that was led by Darius the first, and the Persian King,

The Scythians, or their ancestors-- the ancestors of the Scythians-- were the first people to ride horses.

The Scythians were famous for their accuracy and their long distance shooting.

in Scythian burials of men and women as in these examples from vase paintings and one mosaic there.

a Scythian style of life on the steppes in modern times, you can compare.

But the Scythian, or Scythian-related peoples, spread right across the steppe to the royal Scyths

The Saka are Scythians, but we call them Saka.

So here are our Scythians.

And the Scythian nomadic warriors decided this was a good place to be for a while.

What the Scythians were able to provide were furs, horses, some corn, grain, and slaves, all things

Here is a typical Scythian with his pointed hat and everything, and he's stringing his bow.

There is one Scythian binding the leg, presumably of a wounded colleague.

So our Scythians. Horsemen.

So the Scythians still have successors, as it were, in our world, but in very remote places.

You just mentioned Scythian language.

are based on Scythian ones.

Some groups of Scythians-- in fact, Sarmatians, people called Sarmatians, the women were brought up as fighters.

Amazons as Scythians. These warlike tribes have no cities, no fixed abodes, wrote one ancient Greek historian,

This is a Scythian kurgan.

Among these Scythian nomads, girls learned to ride and handle bows and spears along with their brothers.

Those are typical Scythian weapons like those used by the Amazons in Greek art.

In the Scythian kurgans, warrior women were buried.

Archaeology shows that the Scythian women were laid to rest with the same honors as the men.

The eastern Scythians held the upper hand over China for several centuries.

So among the Scythians, women could achieve the same skill sets as the men, and become outstanding riders, hunters, and warriors, and rise to leadership positions.

The Greek and the Scythian on the horses appear to be observers of a flight archery contest.

have been recovered from Scythian graves.

It's like a sonic scythe just cutting through the water and killing what is, essentially, the basis of the marine food chain.

And if you want to see Scythian material in British museums, there's only one small collection, just a few artifacts, in the museum in Oxford.

And the whole history of the Scythian and the Scythian-related peoples is of this movement, always from the east to the west, always

And you know they're Scythians because they wear these pointed hats.

We have no history of Scythians from the mouths of Scythians.

Similarly-- that's that batch of Scythians.

He can't bring these Scythians to have a good battle with him.

And he was the founder of the Scythians.

And there are still words of Scythian that are spoken in that area.

Slaughter on a scale like this scythed through families, shattered communities, but also shaped nations and scarred imaginations for centuries to come.

She knew he carried a scythe to cut away brush as he traveled.