History of the Scythians: an Ancient Nomadic Culture

The Scythians were a nomadic culture that flourished between the seventh and the third centuries BCE, as their territory expanded from Thrace in the west across the Central Asian Steppe (a steppe is basically just an open swathe of grassland), to the Altai mountains in Mongolia. Their name comes from the Greek “to shoot” as they were known for their skill in archery. Even their cousins, the Parthians--also famous mounted archers--were influenced by the Scythians.
What we understand about the Scythians has been built on the foundation of archaeological finds, especially since they left no written texts or records. Other than the archaeological trail of the Scythians, we also have texts surviving from the ancient world at the time they flourished, namely Akkadian cuneiform tablets and the writings of Herodotus. Since the Scythians were nomads, moving around regularly on horseback in tribes unlike most other ancient cultures in the first millennium BCE, they didn't leave any cities or settlements. The places where we find the most evidence of the Scythians is in their burial mounds known as kurgans, which were monumental burials for the elite of Scythian society.
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0:47 Who are the Scythians?
3:37 Scythian Burials, Art and Architecture
5:58 Scythian Women: Historical Origin of the Amazons?
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[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Have you ever heard of the Scythians? What about them do you admire most?

[@venom6885]

Scityians Is going in India Iran and other in ireland scotland llondon .with huns in 400 beyond scityians remaine manny tribe sarmatic Allans si called khazar kipcak and huns

[@ibrahimabdwahab7627]

warfare.

[@venom6885]

@@mr.purple1779 You see what beatiful Race is left behind our ancestor❤️👍

[@venom6885]

@@mr.purple1779 our papaa fathers

[@mr.purple1779]

@@venom6885 Yours?😁

[@sbhatti534]

Thanks so much for the upload - I feel like I've been waiting for this video for a while :) The Scythians are such a fascinating group of people and their influence extended well beyond their own time and really embedded into other cultures.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@davidbarber3821]

Great video always like learning about the Scythians

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

[@dasuklangrynghang1175]

My favourite channel on KZbin. Keep it up...

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

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Scythians are iranic people we have same language with same structure.

[@yenidenturktarihtezi]

In you dream

[@delaramsalmassi4063]

@@yenidenturktarihteziStop stealing our Aryan/Iranian history! You are most likely a pan - Turk to say such bullshit!

[@Mehrab06]

​@@yenidenturktarihtezigo back to mongolia

[@nathanielvashaw2328]

I have heard of the Scythians before. They were an interesting culture.

[@AryaOghuz]

No way

[@SigKyle-pm4fb]

Still are... found thru-out Europe, North America, Australia/NZ, South Africa.

[@Attila-zh5fe]

In Hungarian, the word "ANIMAL" had several meanings until the 19th century. It also meant the word animal, but it also meant the state of something. In folk songs, the antlers of the stag reach up to the sky and are covered with the light of shining stars, candles or the sun. The magnificent stag connects heaven and earth. Shamans wear deer antlers because they have a stronger connection to the sky than other people. This tradition appears not only among the Scythians but also among the Celts. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWSzpJyIqcZ9m8U time 9:00. In the video below, a Hungarian folk prayer is sung, asking for God's blessing, and in the lyrics the miraculous deer appears, and one of the singers gestures to the miraculous deer with his hand. Descendants of Scythian rattling sticks can also be seen in use. The Scythian rattles often feature a stag. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH_Kq2lvodaKaqc time 1:19.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

🤺☦🇷🇺Scythians are not Hungarians, so keep dreaming if you want lol Hungarians are not only mixed and have no Magyar dna even, but Magyars were a Finnic - their dna was haplogroup N, not the Scythian R1a-m420 subclades! So neither you or your Magyar ruling tribe were Scythians, so stop trying to hijack our Slavic heritage and identity! You have only about a 1/4 R1a in Hungary, so don't say our Scythian ancestors were yours!! Scythians=Slavs

[@randhawaz1]

THere is no difference between Huns and Scythians?

[@mrroyale5688]

@@randhawaz1 With the formation of the Hun Empire in Asia, the Eastern Scythians were incorporated into this empire and dispersed. Their genetic trace can be seen in more and more areas of the empire. Within the empire they were dispersed. When the Hun Empire of Asia fell apart, Sichi, who had fallen in the struggle for the throne, fled westwards with his supporters into the Scythian territory of Asia. Among the Hungarian noble family names there is a Zichy. The Yakuts of today, for example, still decorate their clothes with a tulip with a lily in the belly, as we see in Scythian and Celtic finds, and also in Hungarian folk art.

[@svartsno4061]

Great job. Thanks.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

You're so welcome. 🙂

[@USUMGAL]

I have heard of the Scyths, and You are the perfect spokeswomen, I could listen to you for hours.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@USUMGAL]

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia You are more than welcome ! Do you narrate on all of the videos ?

[@rehanchaudhri7725]

I am from pakistan of punjab heritage of the jatt tribe, the dna tests show 25% balkans and south russia, 45% iranian pakistan heritage, and 30% original indian subcontinent heritage

[@s.tommakai]

Wonderful piece of work, cheers!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@ljnv]

​@@WorldHistoryEncyclopediawhy are the Scythians black in the thumb nail? They have been described as ruddish pale skin

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Thank you!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@PercisePerception]

iNCREDIBLE WORK! bEAUTIFUL PRESENTOR WITH SUCH EXCITABLE ENERGY QUITE THE BLESSING TO BE WITNESS. mY ENTERNAL GRATITUDE FOR THE rESEARCH.

[@petergusev999]

Why are the Scythians in your thumbnail black? They were pale skinned and light haired.

[@BootyWarriorFleeceJohnson]

Already I don’t trust it…hard pass brother

[@arjunkushwaha4146]

I was thinking the same.

[@deanamodeo4072]

Unreal. Everyone from history is black. There's a movie on Netflix with a black Ann Boleyn. Talk about robbing others culture

[@deanamodeo4072]

Yes. I'll never watch the channel again

[@LibertyandJustice76]

You know why

[@xerxes8191]

John Malalas : When he was returning to Egypt from Scythia, he chose 15 thousand young men as warriors. He made them migrate and commanded them to settle in Persis. He gave them land there of whatever sort they chose. These Scythians remained in Persia from that time until now. They were called Parthians by the Persians, which translated in Persian dialect means Scythian

[@Sevatar_VIIIth]

So they are Parthians or the "barbarian" version of Parthians? Reason I ask is because I'm debating playing either a Parthians or Scythian campaign in Total War Rome 1 and really like to know the history of the factions I play in TW games.

[@danielkumar195]

Yep then we made it down to NZ and are called Māori now. Māori people have Persian, Egyptian and DNA from Asia. Specifically modern day Taiwan, but from a couple of the native groups who still resdide there today. We still refer to the sun as Ra who is held as a god (which is Ra from egypt). Maui is from Egypt who was sent by a Pharoah to circum-navigate the globe but got sick of trying to pass the Americas and gave up and stayed in the pacific. Give any of our ancestors a Waka (a large canoe with an out rigger) They'll go anywhere and the knew how and where by using the stars.There are native Maori people with red hair, green and blue eyes. We also tattoo the body and face, our women were also Warriors exactly like Amazonians (Scythians) were highly respected and feared. I dont know of any other women who faught on the front line on hand to hand combat. Too many similarities for me to list and too many for one to ignore.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

Parthians were not Scythians and Scythians were not Iranian! Scythians are only ancestors of us Slavs!!

[@user-tl1zj8gy1m]

@@EasternOrthodox101 Source?

[@EasternOrthodox101]

@@user-tl1zj8gy1m I am an expert about the table of nations and origins of peoples. How about dna? - ancient and modern. FYI R1 is the Marker of the Cimmerians, and Cimmerians only, while R1a-m420, R1b-L51, and R1b-m343 which were split from it are the 3 Cimmerian races (Gomer): Scythians/Slavs (Ashkenaz), Celts/Gauls (Riphat), and Phrygians/Armenians (Togarma). While the whole R2 haplogroup and R1a-z93 tree, as well as haplogroup R before the split belongs to the Iranian/Aryan race (Madai = Medes). Now, only the R1b-v88 branch is the Cushitic marker of Chadics (= Sabtekha). That is the whole story of haplogroup R - that's it.

[@ericflores2929]

scythians need more coverage frfr 💪🏽💯

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@buildabankworkshopsinfinit5817]

Gr8 👍 presentation ✌️

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you so much. 😊

[@keymiaee]

The Scythians managed to avoid a direct confrontation with the Persian army due to their mobile lifestyle and lack of any settlement (except Gelonus), while the Persians suffered losses due to the Scythians' scorched earth tactic. However, the Persians conquered much of their cultivated lands and damaged their allies, forcing the Scythians to respect the Persian force. Darius halted the advance to consolidate his gains, and built a defence line.

[@ramtin5152]

This is going to be a long comment but it'll give you some actual sources from Persian side of the story and make things clear Unfortunately Herodotus writings overshadows the Achaemenid sources The information these Achaemenid sources provide us are the opposite of what Herodotus claims Sometimes small details can give us a lot of information I'm analysing based on all sources during the reign of the Achaemeinids The Achaemeinid ones included For example take a look at their inscriptions The ones made by Darius and Xerxes Unlike what Herodotus says, according to Darius inscriptions and the carvings on the entrances of his and Xerxes tombs, his Scythian campaign in Europe was successful since he chased them away from his borders, burned a Scythian city which was one of the tribes capital and conquered parts of their lands which is north of the black sea Plus an Achaemenid inscription and a fort were found there and if I'm not mistaken and remember correctly, the inscription was about a Persian victory over the Ionian Greeks As if it was sent there to inform a satrap There are Scythians who are referred to as Overseas Saka on those carvings and they're among the people under the Achaemenid rule It's the Scythians north of the black sea which as you can see on many Achaemeinid maps, it's part of their empire So between the sources of the Achaemeinids which were recorded during the reign of the king who fought them and a biased Greek who was writing all of these decades after those kings death and had something against the Persians, i'm gonna trust the Achaemeinids on this one There are evidence of Scythian people being conquered by the Achaemeinids in Persian inscriptions and carvings as i mentioned In the inscriptions they are named as : 1-Saka Haumavarga 2-Saka Tigraxaudā 3-Oversea/Beyond the sea Saka The last one clearly means the Scythians in Europe if you just take a look at the maps There are also Scythian subjects in Persepolis carvings who are offering gifts to the king of kings The ones with pointy hats Achaemeinids didn't even try to conquer all of Scythian lands nor going deep into it because there wasn't anything there that would benefit them like was in Egypt, Indus valley or Lydia They didn't even want to stay at Gelonus after capturing it which could be a great stronghold deep into the Scythian land Instead, they rased the city They had already conquered the strategic Scythian lands in the southern Scythia Their clashes with the Scythians was over strategic positions like control over rivers, chasing them away from their borders or subduing and preventing them to attack the main land or making them protect the empire's borders from other Scythians We can see Scythian subjects not only on the carvings on Persepolis but other inscriptions as well For example, the DB Behistun inscription of Darius I (circa 510 BCE) mentions the haoma drinking Scythians, the Scythians with pointed caps, the Scythians across the sea (Sakâ) and Chorasmia These sources are not what can be easily ignored They give us evidence of Persian rule in Scythian lands both in Europe and central Asia Not to mention that aside from superior numbers, the Achaemenids had every battle troops necessary to deal with Scythians Heavy cavalry, light cavalry, horse archers, foot archers, heavy and light infantry spearmen, javelin throwers and slingers Many settled Iranians such as Persians and Medians who had defeated the Scythians before, during the reign of Cyaxares the great, were familiar with nomadic battle tactics since they themselves were nomads before and some still were All this can only mean that unlike what the Greek records claim, the Scythian campaign of Darius the great was in fact totally successful

[@user-hd6ow5ls2s]

Очень грамотный комментарий. ..) Геродот отец жёлтой прессы, а не историк, коему можно доверять полностью. Все скифы, саки, массагеты, сарматы , аланы , были иранцы и европейцы и были родичами персов. В Римской истории Аммиан Марцеллин прямо указывает на родство персов и скифов,-... персы столь же искусны в воинском деле , ибо происходят от скифов...)😎

[@user-hd6ow5ls2s]

@@ramtin5152 все названия скифов, вся их символика, имена, символы могущества и власти царей, это полностью иранские. Но те кто пытается присвоить себе скифов, - а именно тюрки и прочие сказочники, ни разу так и не смогли пояснить ничего по всей скифской символике ...) 😎

[@keymiaee]

@@user-hd6ow5ls2s Translation in English: very smart comment. ..) Herodotus is the father of the tabloid press, and not a historian who can be trusted completely. All the Scythians, Sakas, Massagetae, Sarmatians, Alans, were Iranians and Europeans and were relatives of the Persians. In Roman history, Ammianus Marcellinus directly points out the relationship between the Persians and the Scythians -... the Persians are just as skilled in military affairs, for they descend from the Scythians...) Thx for your comment

[@keymiaee]

@@user-hd6ow5ls2s , Translation: @ramtinfazeli5152 all the names of the Scythians, all their symbols, names, symbols of the power and authority of the kings, are completely Iranian. But those who are trying to appropriate the Scythians for themselves, namely the Turks and other storytellers, have never been able to explain anything about all the Scythian symbolism...)

[@timurthelamest5630]

Darius the Great did indeed withdraw from Scythia... after conquering their Black Sea coastal territories without a battle, the Scythians would then continue to provide conscripted troops as tribute. People tend to forget but the Persians and Scythians are Iranic relatives which is why the Persians were also expert archers and cavalrymen.

[@Hazardteam]

_"Persians and Scythians are Iranic relatives which is why the Persians were also expert archers and cavalrymen"_ You realy learned like *this??*

[@timurthelamest5630]

@@Hazardteam Not in the sense that they knew archery and equestrianism due to their genetic relation but because they branched out from each other/ migrated from the steppe, yes.

[@venom6885]

@@Hazardteam becouse they was ancient Iranians aramaic parthians migrated iinnmanny tribe in the stepee

[@Hazardteam]

@@timurthelamest5630 _"migrated from the steppe"_ fake. The guys (hurri, kura araxes, kien'gir/kan'gar etc pre-schitian nations was migrated TO the steppe (especialy to carpatian basin, tarim basin, BMAC, then bactria) Then after some part of the schitians came back, and made the partian empire. Totaly reverse way and 0 genethicaly/cultural/ethnical connection with the indoiranians... Even the med-persian coaliton was fight against the schitians around the black sea, and meotis. So please, don't...

[@timurthelamest5630]

@@Hazardteam Sorry to dissapoint you, but I will always support real history over whatever nonsense that you wrote.

[@ayeshafazal6174]

it's amazing

[@mrroyale5688]

There are three-branched antlers on a deer depicted on a Neolithic pottery in Csépa, Hungary, on a depiction of a shaman in Hungarian folk art, on a Scythian find from Asia, on a tarsoly plate from the Perm area. Where they are attached to the head, there are skull thinnings on the skulls of 10th century Hungarians. The skull thinning was intended to remove as much as possible the obstacle to communication with God. The skull bone was considered such an obstacle.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Interesting! Thanks for watching!

[@mrroyale5688]

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia A Scythian artwork shows a deer emerging from the mouth of an eagle. At the end of the stag's antlers are cock's heads. What does this symbolise? The eagle is the symbol of the celestial being, the deer is the symbol of the relationship with the celestial being. The body of the stag is the framework of the relationship with God. It has two frames, one is the created world and the other is my personal body. The deer coming out of the eagle's mouth symbolizes that the relationship with God, and its frame, is born through the word of God in the created world. This is the dawn of creation, so the end of the antlers of the stag have cock's heads.

[@harvindersingh8705]

James Tod[25] writes that the tribes here alluded to are the Haihaya or Aswa, the Takshak, and the Jat or Getae; the similitude of whose theogony, names in their early genealogies, and many other points, with the Chinese, Tatar, Mogul, Hindu, and Scythic races, would appear to warrant the assertion of one common origin. Professor B. S. Dhillon states that the Jats are mainly of Indo-Scythian lineage with composite mixing of Sarmatians, Goths & Jutes in History and study of the Jats.[26] Historian James Tod agreed in considering the Jats to be of Indo-Scythian Stock.[27] Moreover, Sir Alexander Cunningham, Former Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, considered the Jats to be the Xanthii (a Scythian tribe) of Scythian stock who he considered very likely called the Zaths (Jats) of early Arab writers.[28] He stated "their name is found in Northern India from the beginning of the Christian era." These people were considered by early Arab writers to have descended from Meds and Zaths.[29][30] Sir Cunningham believed that they "were in full possession of the valley of the Indus towards the end of the seventh century.[31] Stephen Fuchs suggests that the Jats probably migrated from Central Asia to India as a "predatory nomadic tribe".[32] Natalya Romanovna Guseva considered the Jats to be the descendants of the Sakas.[33] It has also been suggested that "the Rajputs proper were of mixed origin - pre-Muslim invaders such as Scythians, Bactrians, Parthians, Hunas and Gurjaras who came in before, say, the end of the 7th century."[34] Sir Alexander Cunningham, (Former Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India) wrote: The Xanthii (a Scythian tribe) are very probably the Zaths (Jats) of the early Arab writers. As the Zaths were in Sindh to the west of the Indus, this location agrees very well with what we know of the settlement of the Sakas (Scythians) on the Indian frontier.[35] Sir John Marshall, (Former Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India) wrote: "These Scythian invaders came principally from the three great tribes of Massagetae (great Jats), Sacaraucae, and Dahae (still exists as a Jat clan of Punjab)[36], whose home at the beginning of the second century B.C. was in the country between the Caspian sea (sea) and the Jaxartes river (Central Asia).[37] Arthur Edward Barstow wrote: "Greeks of Bactria (partly modern Afghanistan), expelled by the hordes of Scythians, entered India in the second and first centuries BC and are said to have penetrated as far as Orissa (an Indian province in south-east). Meanwhile the Medii, Xanthii, Jatii, Getae and other Scythian races, were gradually working their way from the banks of the Oxus (River valley in Central Asia) into Southern Afghanistan and the pastoral highland about Quetta (a Pakistani city), whence they forced their way by the Bolan Pass, through the Sulaiman Mountains into India, settling in the Punjab about the beginning of the first century AD. It is from these Scythian immigrants that most of the Jat tribes are at any rate partly descended."[38] A. H. Bingley wrote: "It is from these Scythian Immigrants that most of the Jat tribes are at any rate partly descended."[39] Professor Joyce Pettigrew wrote: "Another view holds that the Jats came from Asia Minor and Armenia in the successive invasions during the period 600 B.C. to A.D. 600."[40] Professor Henry Smith Williams wrote: "The extent of the Scythian invasion has been variously estimated. Some scholars believe that they virtually supplanted the previous population of India (means Punjab), and there seems little doubt that by far the most numerous section of the Punjab population is of Scythian origin."[41] Professor Pritam Singh Gill wrote: "There is a general concensus of opinion that Jats, and with them Rajputs and Gujjars were foreigners who came from their original home, near the Oxus, Central Asia."[42] Professor Tadeusz Sulimirski wrote: "The evidence of both the ancient authors and the archaeological remains point to a massive migration of Sacian (Sakas)/Massagetan ("great" Jat) tribes from the Syr Daria Delta (Central Asia) by the middle of the second century B.C. Some of the Syr Darian tribes; they also invaded North India."[43] Horace Arthur Rose wrote: "Many of the Jat tribes of the Punjab have customs which apparently point to non-Aryan origin. Suffice it to say that both Sir Alexander Cunningham and Colonel Tod agreed in considering the Jats to be of Indo-Scythian Stock. The former identified them with the Zanthi of Strabo (Greek Geographer of the ancient times) and the Jatii of Pliny (Roman writer) and Ptolemy (Another Greek Geographer of the ancient times); and held that they probably entered the Punjab from their home on the Oxus (in Central Asia) very shortly after the Meds or Mands (still exist as one of the Jat clans of the Punjab), who also were Indo-Scythians, and who moved into the Punjab about a century before Christ."[44] Sir Henry Miers Elliot wrote: "These ignorant tribes (Jats) pointing to the remote Ghazni (Afghanistan) as their original seat, the very spot we know to have been occupied by the Yuechi, or, as Klaproth says, more correctly, Yuti, in the first centuries of our era, after the Sakas (a Scythian tribe) were repelled back from the frontiers of India, and left the country between India and Persia open for their occupation. The Jat tribes not doubt emigrated, no at all once, but at different times, and it is probable that those in the North-West are among the latest importations."[45] I. Sara wrote: "Recent excavations in the Ukraine and Crimea. The finds points to the visible links of the Jat and Scythians."[46] Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff wrote: "My conclusion, therefore, is, that the Jats may be of Scythian descent."[47] Ujagir Singh Mahil wrote: "Jat were called Scythians; because they were the inhabitants of the ancient country of Scythia. The Jats who invaded the Punjab and conquered India up to Benares were called Indo-Scythians."[48] James Francis Katherinus Hewitt wrote: "Further evidence both of the early history and origin of the race of Jats, or Getae, is given by the customs and geographical position of another tribe of the same stock, called the Massagetae, or great (massa) Getae."[49] Sir George Fletcher MacMunn (Sir and Lt. General) wrote: "Alexander came to India in his capacity as the holder of the Persian throne. From his camp near Kabul (Afghanistan), the Macedonian (Alexander) summoned those chiefs whom Skylax (Persian general) had conquered in the old time afore, to come and renew their homage to their ancient Persian overlord in the person of himself. Several obeyed his summons, others did not, and it has been surmised that those who did were later arrivals, of Jat or Scythian origin, outside the normal Aryan fold as later comers to India."[50] Syed Muhammad Latif wrote: "A considerable portion of the routed army of the Scythians settled in the Punjab, and a race of them, called Nomardy, inhabited the country on the west bank of the Indus (river). They are described as a nomadic tribe, living in wooden houses, after the old Scythian fashion, and settling where they found sufficient pasturage. A portion of these settlers, the descendants of Massagetae, were called Getes, from whom sprung the modern Jats."[51] Dr. Gopal Singh wrote: "The Jats of the Panjab, are Scythians in origin and came from Central Asia, whose one branch migrated as far south in Europe as Bulgaria. "[52] N. Singh wrote: "The Scythians appear to originate from Central Asia. They reached Punjab between 50 B.C. and A.D. 50. It seems probable that the Scythian ancestors of the Jats entered the Sindh Valley (presently in Pakistan Kashmir) between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100."[53] Satya Shrava wrote: "The Jats are none other than the Massagetae (Great Getae) mentioned in Diodorus as an off-spring of the ancient Saka tribe.... a fact now well-known."[54] Bakhshish Singh Nijjar wrote: "The Jats are the descendants of Scythians, whose kingdom's capital was Scythia, in the present Ukraine (Ukrainian), Soviet Social Republic, is the constituent Republic of the European USSR (Population 49,757,000) in 1947. Now Ukraine's capital is Kiev, the third leading city in Russia. Before the invasion of the golden herd, 13th century B.C. Scythian, ancient kingdom of indeterminate boundaries, centered in the area north of the Black Sea."[55] Rima Hooja suggests that the Jats are "probably descendants of the Scythians who entered India in early historical times".[56]

[@kk-tw2co]

Dude,jats aren't any getae....These are mere theories.... nothing else... having no base in it.

[@harvindersingh8705]

@@kk-tw2co yeah may be these all the historians are lying, which I’ve cited above?! You alone could be the right person

[@kk-tw2co]

@@harvindersingh8705 And the only thing makes you to believe them as a great Historians is your inferiority complex.🥴 The truth is just that some scientists find some Anatolian DNA in some Indians doesn't make them foreigners.And it's not only jats those are having this DNA many other North Western tribes also share the large % of it like Brahmins,Khatri,Ror,Aheer/Heer, n lohana etc.Now,in no way these terms can be translated as Getae...😭 Lol....

[@amitrajput4617]

@@kk-tw2co bro don't bother to make them understand about it .... Their inferiority complex led them to think of themselves as foreign invader nothing else ...

[@lll2282]

you know there are lot of rajputs who follow shaka calendar of hindusim (sythian calender)

[@serkankinden5150]

Thanks a lot for all your efforts, I appreciated, enjoyed your good documented video despite some wrong informations to be corrected: 1. First of all, scythians were not red haired, they were ostrogoths mixed with scythians. Germanic visigoths, slavic ostrogoths were genetically different as also some descendants are still very different from scythian descendants. If we look at ydna of scythians and ostrogoths, ostrogoths have I2 ydna mostly in balkanic, ukrainian region (also we can realize their language as slavic easily) on the other hand scythians had R1a, R1b ydna (which is entirely different genetics) mostly in east and west euroasia. They had mostly brown hair and colored or brown eyes not red hair. Germanic visigoths had I1 ydna like their direct descendant Swedish people having mostly blonde hairs and blue eyes and slavic ostrogoths had I2 ydna like their direct descendant Jugoslavian people having partly red hairs and blue/green eyes. 2. Scythians were not entirely speaking indoeuropean language. Even, their language is a strong mystery, we dont know their language directly. Their language is SUPPOSED TO BE iranic because relative Khotan language was iranic as a bactrian tribe (which are again genetically distinct from but mixed with persian, grecobactrian J2). If we look at their genetics, they may also have spoken turkic/altaic languages because of their altaian genetic ancestry. Especially Tsar scythians were speaking turkic language as well known. But again, turkic people also have mixed with mongolic C3 which is genetically distinct from altaian P1, R1a, R1b ancestors. In conclusion, as a distinguished people their language is not exactly known. I think they may have spoken dene-yeniseian (new language family theory) languages originally. Native american, Yeniseian, North Caucasian, Elder Sumerian, Tyrrhenian, Vasconic people have spoken in history or are still speaking these agglutinative languages. (As a turkish man, I also had a doubt that we could may also have been speaking dene-yeniseian languages in history as Saka and Sumer descendants.)

[@lyndaanneshop]

This was so much information. I think you should make a video for me. Thank you for such a detailed response.

[@user-jw5zc8su7f]

I have some information they also called sakas, iskuzai askuzai, sakzai, iskuzaya.and I think zai word is afghan which mean son.iskuzai son of isku, sakazaya son of saka

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Interesting. Thanks for watching!

[@jessklay8594]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. I’m curious about Scythian history & find them fascinating. I wonder if they are related to the Denisovans at all? Or if they came from the North Pole?? Somebody came from the North Pole, not sure who tho lol

[@user-xu2dn3db4r]

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[@adwaitvedant3297]

Scythians origin were from North western India and North Eastern Iran ...They were rulers of Western India ...Known as saka kshatrapa....Their timeline is 1100 BCE to 600 BCE...According to Indian sources

[@vickydevera2176]

Saka,Isaac sons

[@ChachiMogo]

N. Western India and N. Eastern Iran aren't even close to each other. What kind of a bogus history and geography are they teaching you in India?

[@mathish1477]

India patriotic history is pretty flawed and ideological 😢

[@user-lw5]

😂😂

[@Adil_Turysbek]

Scythians originated in Central Asia. Some of them moved to India because they fled from coming Yuezhi and Hunnic tribes.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Scythians were many peoples not only Iranic

[@eiliakashkoli2348]

I'm sure they were not from turgay

[@markuslappalainen6847]

Yes. Greeks were not making clear distinction between different ethnic groups. They called all barbars since they couldnt understand their language but heard only barbarbar-sounds. Scythian was probably their name for all horsepeople who lived in tents.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@markuslappalainen6847 of course

[@S1dz]

No Try harder to falsify history and reality

[@artinrahideh1229]

There definitely were mixed stuff as nomadic peoples tend to be

[@misterivo4141]

Me: Civilization 6 brings me here great vid by the way :)

[@macdaddy625]

I cant find where it says diadorus says scythians came from the araxes, can someone point me in that direction?

[@bigbang2905]

Scythians spoke Seven Languages not Just one language "Iranian" and This is mentioned by Herodotus, and the culture of the Scythians is completely different from the Indo-Europeans people, and the Dna of the Scythians is a mixture of R1a, Q1, R1b, N, J1 and J2

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

🤺☦🇷🇺The dna of Scythians was not a "mixture", ignorants...other than the R1a samples, that is not Scythian dna wtf. Scythians are our ancestors, so get education...

[@latakicsi2183]

You should read the Hungarian Chronicon Pictum from 1360...its clearly stated Scythian-Hun-Hungarian continuity...and socalled Scythian deer tattoo is around thousands of years, even iceman Otzi had one...

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

👍

[@Optimistic7718]

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Scythia,Avar,Hun,Magyar=HUNGARY🇭🇺

[@mrroyale5688]

The "God One" in Hungarian runic script, read from top to bottom, looks like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYram4OwfrZpopY time: 0:22. The top part has become the lily symbol. The meaning of the symbol is God. On a disc from the 10th century at Solt-tételhegy (Hungarian locality), the sun is surrounded by the four lilies of God in the shape of a cross. A simplified version can be seen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3mldYl9ecp0pKM time 41:17, figures 17 and 18. Around the solar disk in four directions is inscribed God, God, God, God. What does this symbolize? This symbol is also found on a Scythian carpet. (Pazyryk Culture)

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Interesting. Thanks for watching!

[@mrroyale5688]

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia In a Hungarian Christian church, a bird has this lily symbol of God on its head. Who does this bird represent? Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppDGg2l9fJuDj8U, time: 2:50

[@thomastulley1588]

Enlightening Pre and post-Celtic culture.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@arifahmedkhan9999]

What do you mean celts? They were Indo-Iranic, completely different from the celts, celts belonged to the Itallo-Celtic branch of the Indo-Europeans, whereas scythians belonged to the Indo-Iranic branch of it, they existed literally on the path from were the indo-Iranians travelled, and btw Iranic people were already present in Iran and Indo-aryans and Indo-Iranic in India during the 1000s BCE after the bronze age collapse.

[@michaelhearne3289]

Well not completely different. Celts and Scythians are both part of the Indo European family of languages, and genetically linked.

[@Alakhana]

@@michaelhearne3289 Bengali’s And Swedes are also Indo Europeans yet no one claims their the same people. Scythian’s had lots of East Asian admixture and BMAC derived ancestry (both of which are not found in Celts). So no,Celts aren’t Scythian’s. Plus the Scythian’s spoke Iranic/Indo Iranian languages which are Satem languages whereas Celtic languages are Centum.

[@michaelhearne3289]

@@Alakhana Scythians in the Black sea region were pushed out to the west by the Samaritans, also an Indo-Iranian speaking people. They could very well have contributed to Celtics ethno-genisis, while being absorbed linguistically. I will point out Estonians are also Indo Iranians while living on the Baltic just opposite Sweden. All Indo-European stem from the same root stock. The Indo Iranians simply broke off the main branch earlier than most. But definately related genetically.

[@lll2282]

@@michaelhearne3289 noo sythians were indo-iranian in every aspect even their culture,relgion ,ethnicity they just invaded and ruled u people

[@Adil_Turysbek]

​@@michaelhearne3289Well, the black sea region Scythians were not really Scythians. They were mainly subjugated Cimmerians (sounds like Cymry for some reason) ruled by few real Scythians (royal Scythians).

[@geraldbrefka1145]

I took the ancestry DNA test for viking and found none. It took me 2 weeks to follow this rumor told by our dark age nobles and found these busts that the Romans have 3000 years ago and my family look like twins of these guys still today and my last name means the eyebrow bridge of the Sarmatians. The Amazons were the daughters of the Sarmatians.

[@theodemirweltmann9673]

I took a DNA test. I am German and half Russian, and my haplogroup is like that of the Vikings, Scythians and Sarmatians.

[@malaxes]

Your Sarmatian eyebrow must be Polish Sarmatian brefka written as brew, brewka and pronouced brefka in Polish.

[@geraldbrefka1145]

@@malaxes yes

[@user-ns5es3dg8x]

thank you very much for the lecture, please tell me who are their descendants today?

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

We need more evidence to know for sure.

[@arashhassanpour]

It is interesting that these Iranic tribes don't get enough attention usually. Sakas, Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, etc. Even modern day Iranian people don't know much about them!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

We agree. Thanks for watching!

[@Terasawa15]

I regard Scythian/Saka not social, political, or ethnic grouping. They were global spiritual and cultural phenomenon of nomad movement within Pan Eurasian steps and beyond in pre- historical millennium human interaction migration and evolution centered around human with horse mobility. Thier commonality of life style, life/death views, Cosmology, spirituality had been phenomenal and vast. How vital that Horse mobility brought and created such vast common identical spirituality and culture before any world religions emerged in history. Thier interaction with animal world and animal related legends are so unique. Thier technology and artisanship with goldsmith and arsenals are extremely sophisticated though they left nothing kind of writing records and. huge architectural monuments. Behind all material remains, they demonstrated heroinsm, cosmic shamanism, highly spiritual brotherhood and ethical attitude of federal governance discipline without any power center of empire building. In my opinion, best inheritor of this universal spiritual attitude and life style and cosmology of Scythian/Saka was Buddha Sakyamuni.

[@lajosnagy6356]

He was Scythian after all

[@comptonkz]

@@lajosnagy6356 Buddha was first in Central Asia.

[@comptonkz]

A good comment. Etruscans are also related to them.

[@harvindersingh8705]

Jatt and Jaats in North India are the descendants of Scythians.. They came all the way from Middle East Asia.. Now they’re inhabiting all around the world with different surnames. Once upon a time Denmark was also known as JattLand. Scythians are born talented at Martial Arts and Farming (Ploughing). They were mostly farmers, but also considered as the most bravest people out there; they also fought many battles with Mughals and other rulers such as Alexander the Great (328-27 BC), Taimur, Nadir Shah, Ahmad Shah Abdali, Mahmood Ghaznavi and Mohammad Gauri. According to many historians there was a time when there was no one in Asia and Europe who would stand a ground against Scythians Jatts. Once they also attacked on Greece and won Athens as well. They ruled Iran and Afghanistan for quite a long time, then they moved to Sindh (ruled 137 years) and North West India; they also won Scandinavia in 2000BC. The last ruler from Jatt Clan (Scythians) was Albaaroo of Spain in 10th century. In this day and age, they are mostly named as Jatt, Jaat, Jot, Jateh, Goat, Goth, Gete, Jetti, Jette, Juti, Jut, Jattu according to the region.

[@Evansdrad8515]

lots of individuals from lots of ethnicities and even entirely ethnicities only partially descend from Scythians or at best certain villages and families. Only real Scythian (not just descent) are the Ossetians.

[@Evansdrad8515]

but way to go for pointing out the Jatts. Not very many people know of their Scythian heritage. Likewise there is a tribe called Sarmanasti or something like that. A Baloch and Pashtun tribe has the same etymological root so descend from Sarmatians (a similar name) but only partially and for their tribe. Not claiming Balochs or Pashtuns have Scythian ancestry. I can't even say if they do or don't. Don't know about the whole group. But there is a Baloch and Pashtun tribe with the name and might (at least partially) descend from the Scythians. Which would be related to the Jatts.

[@nestingherit7012]

Jatts= Gettae= Massagetae The river Tisa name in Romania derives from Thyssagettae ( small getts) There are also regions with meaning in Indian languages and Sanskrit. Crisana region ( hare Krishna) The surname Crisan/ Krishnan with Visan/ Vishan, Balan, Balahura/ Balhara( ball/ strength+ hara/ possession) The region Biharia ( Bihar) Country Harghita ( Har/ possession+ ghita from Bhagavad Gita) Deva city Etc.

[@ikramulhaq7431]

@@Evansdrad8515 pashtuns ossetian and pamiri

[@ChachiMogo]

In Afghanistan, Gypsies are called Jatt! Could these be the same Jatt as you're talking about?

[@aibekshiganbayev8024]

Good job here, but you should also put the picture of unic "Golden Man", explored King\Khan of Scythians found in Kazakstan

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you for your feedback and for watching!

[@monteagudoabeezekieljardie7884]

Here's some suggestions for your KZbin channel: History of Thailand History of the Philippines Early history of Japan before the Samurai

[@Optimistic7718]

🇭🇺Scythia,Avar,Hun,Magyar =HUNGARY🇭🇺

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@matthewv4086]

If scythians were related to parthians, and parthians are Iraninan people, then is it correct to say that scythins were also, part of the bigger Iraninan family of tribes and clans?

[@bigbang2905]

The DNA of the Scythians( R1a, N, Q, R1b, J2, D) their genes, their culture and their religion were not Indo-European in their DNA, it is only found in Turkic people like (Kyrgyz, Bashkirs, Uyghurs, Salar, Turkmen, Sakha, Shor, Khakas, Balkar, Tatar, Sayan Chuvash, Qumuk, Nogai, Uzbek and Altai) only Turkic People

[@matthewv4086]

@@bigbang2905 then parthians were turks as well, then, are Iraninan are turk too?

[@eiliakashkoli2348]

Scythians were first Iranian tribe and Oldest clan

[@eiliakashkoli2348]

@Kuvvet karazehir Sure 😂

[@lll2282]

sythia were indo-irani

[@mrroyale5688]

The Hungarians who conquered at the end of the century were 10-15% of the local population. 60% of the conquering population were genetically similar to the Basques and Volga Tatars (former Volga Bulgars) living today. Among the ancient archaeological cultures, they were genetically related to the OKUNEVO culture, Siberian Scythians (based on samples of bones from Scythians living in Tuva and present-day Kazakhstan), Scythians found in Pazyryk in the Altai Mountains, Sagly-Uyuk culture, Xiongnu culture found in western Mongolia. Hungarians considered themselves Scythians and Huns (Scythians among the Huns) according to our ancient chronicles. Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKXNeKuOYpmNkKM time: 20:02.

[@DavidLarew]

You lightly touched on the red hair debate. Celtic Hallstatt Period 1000 bc may or may not be at their origin story. Any DNA tests to confirm?

[@antidweller6373]

Yes, they were indo european caucasoids. Either celtic, Iranic, slavic . But certainly not turco mongoloid. Thanks for this awesome video.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

[@akkauntgoogle7746]

Dude The first INDO-EUROPEAN Haplogroup was found in Area of ALTAY AMOUNTAİNS Which leads to Conclusion that many SCYTHİANS were of mixed Race. İt's impossible to maintain CONTROL over Large Territory With the use of Genetically Encapsulated Group

[@TheColombiano89]

They are Iranian

[@alejandrocanelo3058]

Celtic? No

[@akkauntgoogle7746]

@@alejandrocanelo3058 ARYAN is different than PERSİAN

[@user-dc4bl1cu2k]

Scythians did not have women warriors. That was the Sarmatians. Even a book I read on them affirms this. This confusion is also clearly stated in the book.

[@Adil_Turysbek]

Nobody had women warriors. The steppe people allowed women to ride horses and shoot arrows to protect children and cattle when men go to war. That is how myth came to being.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

​@@Adil_Turysbek🇷🇺☦️🤝☪️🇵🇸Exactly. Those ignorant clowns think that ancient people would be so dumb like society today to think that men and women need to be equal in their roles and different natures🤦😂

[@EasternOrthodox101]

Thanks for proving that Samarians were a different race from Scythians, since the clowns here often think otherwise. Scythians = Slavs = R1a subclades (except from the R1a-z93 branch of the Iranian/Aryan Medes) Sarmatians = Ossetians = G2a1 subclades

[@thomasrandolph3249]

The Kurgan mounds sound like they hold many stories.

[@lyndaanneshop]

Oh I love her voice

[@samankiani1116]

Scythians are Iranian nomads not celts xd

[@venom6885]

Mix celtic scotish irish Red head is atested in Iran Afganistan tajikistan north india Pakistan and Siria . Pamirs area

[@venom6885]

@Kuvvet karazehir mix turcic iranic first was achamenides most great empires and scityians After gogturk Huns mix Scityians .unions army's when attyla go in invasiion of Rome

[@venom6885]

@Kuvvet karazehir you even don't know the masaget and sarmatyans Getae from carpatyans mountain Transilvania .and Dobrogea they go with Huns gogturk

[@exit5620]

Scythians and Persian fought with each other. If Scythians were Persian they would have moved into Persia. Scythians were part of they 10 northern tribes of Israel that were nomadic because they lost their land. They were pushed over the Caucus mountains by Darius and became known as Caucasian. The Germans got their name From Latin meaning germane because the were considered genuine Scythians.

[@fanzy1338]

@@exit5620 You keep repeating the same comment. Scythians did move to Persia which at the time stretched from Indus Valley to Egypt. In fact Scythians are called Sakas in old Persian and they settled in Eastern Iran province named after them as Sakistan (see ancient maps) meaning land of Sakas. The name name transliterated to Sistan in modern Persian.

[@IranAzadLoading]

My ancestors 😎

[@IranAzadLoading]

@Kuvvet karazehir yes

[@IranAzadLoading]

@Kuvvet karazehir it has nothing to do with turkic. Wasnt even a thing at time of Scythians.

[@IranAzadLoading]

@Kuvvet karazehir😅

[@IranAzadLoading]

@Kuvvet karazehir are greeks proto turks?

[@IranAzadLoading]

@Kuvvet karazehir so how are Scytians?

[@davidpines6621]

Check out Asha logos Scythians history

[@pedrambargassa7321]

Could-you please provide the references you have to confirm that their language was Indo-European ?

[@Alprtngakrc]

Scythians (or Sakas) are a group of ancient tribes of nomadic warriors made up of various ethnic groups including Turks (protoTurks). Turks were most probably the ruling tribe despite they weren't possibly constituting the majority in this confederation just like the many other Turkish empires in history. In the ancient times and even today normadic people could/can speak several languages and people at those ancient times had no objection to mixing with the other ethnic groups . We don't have much information regarding Scythians as we don't have any access to Scythian texts beyond some toponymic and tribal names and appellations, and for the science of etymology these are the most controversial and unreliable sources of evidence. What's more those sources who brought the data together aren't very reliable either. In short these informations aren't as reliable as the dna samples extracted from the graves of ruling Scythian elites and the big match between this dna with the common dna which exists exclusively in Turks or in the people who live in the geographical lands Turks ruled for thousands of years. The link below suggests one of the reasons why people think that Scythians are the proto-Turks. “Concerning the legacy of the Iron Age nomads, we find that modern human populations with a close genetic relationship to the Scythian groups are predominantly located in close geographic proximity to the sampled burial sites, suggesting a degree of population continuity through historical times. 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 "Genetic origins and legacy of the Scythians and Sarmatians eurogenes.blogspot.com/2017/03/genetic-origins-and-legacy-of-scythians.html?m=1 also this one Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14615 The war techniques used by Scythians are idential with Turks’ and also just like Huns and Kok-Turks they too were using runic alphabet which Iranic people didn’t have and didn’t use. These are the other reason which makes people think that Turks and Scythians are the same people

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

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[@mr.purple1779]

Kipchak is a Tatar branch in relative proximity to burials between Siberia and Europe. The so-called Bulgar-Polovtsian languages. Only about 10 million people in the world, including all the Bashkirs and Chuvash, and not the Turkish.

[@Alprtngakrc]

@@mr.purple1779 No actually it's the the other way around. Tatar is a branch of Kypchak, and Kypchaks include Kazakh the Kyrgyz as well. They all linguistically represent the Kypchak branch of Turkish language. The Oghuz (Azerbaijanis, Turkmens and Turks in Turkey all very much mixed with the Kypchak. The difference between the Kypchak and the Oghuz is really in he dialects they speak only. The Oghuz trbe too is orginally from Siberia.

[@mr.purple1779]

@@Alprtngakrc You're wrong. It's about- predominantly located in close geographic proximity to the sampled burial sites. There are no Kyrgyz and even more so Turks, and never been. The publication even has maps.

[@Alprtngakrc]

@@mr.purple1779 It talks about the comparison between the DNA samples obtanied from the oldest burial sites of the Scythians which is in Tuva, Southern Siberia from the the 9th century BCE and the DNA of the contemporary populations and mention that there's a very big match between genetic makeup of oldest Scythians and the contemporary Turkish populations and particularly the Kypchaks. Trust me that Kyrgyz and Kazakhs are Kypchak people and the Oghuz are very related with the Kypchaks. I studied Turkology in university.

[@mrroyale5688]

To the Scythians, Dionysus was a foreign god, so they translated him into their language, and the Greeks added a Greek suffix to his name (Borystenes). The point is that there are three Hungarian words in the name. Wine, (Hungarian "BOR"), god (Hungarian: ISTEN), and the first syllable of the Hungarian word for god is an old version of the word ős, still in use in the 12th century (Hungarian: ŐS, in Old Hungarian: ÍS).

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@963ag]

Were they Persian or Turkic? Are there any links to any modern- day language groups? What nations / cultures are their closest modern- day descendants?

[@esrefyalnklcl6500]

Classical anthropological and archaeological studies in the 19th and early 20th centuries suggested that the Scythians were Indo-Aryanic, but modern archelogical excavations and ethno-anthropological studies based on the Botai culture in Kazakhstan and elsewhere in Eurasia, say the Scythians were proto-Turkic people...

[@lll2282]

@@esrefyalnklcl6500 they were not turkic they were indo-irani

[@John-nb6ep]

Slavs probably.

[@OshinAttari]

They Were Iranic

[@ChachiMogo]

They 100% not Turkic and they were 100% not Persian. However, they were Iranic from the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family tree. The Persians are also Iranic but they are not the only ones.

[@mrroyale5688]

When people sang in groups for the first time in history, what geometric shapes did they create to sing together?

[@MrZomg17]

All theories of where the Scythians began migrating from are correct they came up and converged into a larger noticeable group

[@mitkodimitrov8396]

is there DNA samples,for scyhians,thracians and dacians?

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Yes, there is. Do a Google search for more information.

[@mindblowing3202]

I suggest reading: Les Scythes, les ancètres des peuples germaniques et slaves by Frédéric Guillaume Bergmann.

[@halebopp8439]

for me, western historians are not credible

[@Attila-zh5fe]

The Scythian mirror is also a tool for facing our divine image, for self-examination. The stag is a symbol of the state of connection with the god, and is therefore depicted on the Scythian mirror. According to a Hungarian saying, if I am honest, I can still look in the mirror.

[@almurabitun]

Scythians migrated from Central Asia into India, Uzbekistan/Turkmenistan and as far as Ukraine and intermixed with all the peoples.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

👍🙂

[@exit5620]

Scythians were forced into Europe by Darius the Persian King.

[@jattadeputt9880]

Messagetae from India ⚔️💪🇮🇳❤️

[@armanfozonjahi4315]

😂they are Persian

[@mrroyale5688]

The Scythians and the Sarmatians also lived in the Carpathian Basin. The Hungarians of today are largely their genetic descendants. Some of the Asian Huns, mainly in the west, are descended from the Scythians who lived in the Altai Mountains. This is confirmed by a find at a place called Noin-Ula. It depicts a deer and a bird of prey, with the bird on top. What does this symbolise?

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Not sure if you're talking about a hybrid animal? In which case it could be the Peryton (a mythological creature).

[@mrroyale5688]

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Scythian, Pazyryk: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amGue4Frh5d4eMU time: 0:03 Avars: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqCydYKrfdF0rq8 idő: 0:06 Next film has more. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJXZd5mHm7OXpbs Xiongnu, Noin-Ula, time 21:35 Székesfehérvérvár, church, Middle Ages: time: 22:24 (in stock in museum!) Hungarian Reformed Church: time: 24:30 Hungarian folk art: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqfYhn-DdpaEnas time: 2:11:31

[@mrroyale5688]

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Perm, from the place circled on the map, between 500-800 years. On the upper left of the artefact on the right is a deer and an eagle. The deer has three antlers! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIvJf2R3pZp-gJI time: 27:56.

[@jangwoopark]

The kurgans in South Korea show the scythian crowns of Silla. The first King Park Hyokoae was a Scythian: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowns_of_Silla

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts! 🙂

[@fxkinsella]

Could celts and khazars of come from scythians?

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Possibly, but we'll need more evidence. Thanks for watching!

[@rainbowsprankles6085]

Interesting thumbnail choice 🤔

[@NumerologyQueen]

Reading Death of Nature by Carolyn Merchant. She describes how during the Iron Age and gold rush, the Scythians agreed not to mine the veins of the earth, to stay free of greed. They were resourceful AND ethical warriors. Is this correlated to woman having power in their tribe? I like to think so.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Fascinating. Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@olahenci]

This is absolutely true. Even in the Bronze Age there are people in helmets with long horns. A man with horns is first found in the Trois-Fréres cave. It is estimated at 15,000-13,000 years before Christ. It is strange that this depiction also appears in Scythian times. Hungarians sing a folk prayer about a boy with horns, while rattling sticks. The Scythian rattling stick ends also sometimes show a deer, sometimes a cattle.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

🤺☦🇷🇺Scythians are not Hungarians, so keep dreaming if you want lol Hungarians are not only mixed and have no Magyar dna even, but Magyars were a Finnic - their dna was haplogroup N, not the Scythian R1a-m420 subclades! So neither you or your Magyar ruling tribe were Scythians, so stop trying to hijack our Slavic heritage and identity! You have only about a 1/4 R1a in Hungary, so don't say our Scythian ancestors were yours!! Scythians=Slavs

[@mrroyale5688]

@@EasternOrthodox101 Slavs and Hungarians also use Scythian symbols. See what you can explain with your own tradition and language. Look forward to your list!

[@EasternOrthodox101]

@@mrroyale5688Thanks) Hungarians might have adopted it from us, due to their heavily mixed population, but those Scythian symbols are ours and ours alone. Here is the correct lineage of the Gimmiri from which came Scythians: Cimmerians were a Japhetic family (European race) split to 3 sub-races👉 *GOMER* (Cimmerians): *Ashkenaz* (Scythians: Poles, Slovaks, Czechs, Russians...- Slavs) *Riphat* (Gauls: French, Belgs, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Brittons, Spanish, Portuguese... - Celts) *Togarma* (Phrygians: w.Anatolians - Armenians)

[@mrroyale5688]

A Scythian artwork shows a deer emerging from the mouth of an eagle. At the end of the stag's antlers are cock's heads. What does this symbolise? The eagle is the symbol of the celestial being, the deer is the symbol of the relationship with the celestial being. The body of the stag is the framework of the relationship with God. It has two frames, one is the created world and the other is my personal body. The deer coming out of the eagle's mouth symbolizes that the relationship with God, and its frame, is born through the word of God in the created world. This is the dawn of creation, so the end of the antlers of the stag have cock's heads.@@EasternOrthodox101

[@CyrusPersia-wv7zo]

⁠@@EasternOrthodox101 You are an expert and then you say that the Scythians were slaves😳😂❓ Bro, the Scythians were never ethnically Slaves. Will yes, many of them lived in modern Russia, just as many of them lived in Uzbekistan, Baktria and modern Afghanistan. but they were ethnically Iranian people. The Scythians were Iranian tribes, from the nomadic Aryan people, who geographically reached from the north to the southern plains of Siberia, from the south to the Caspian Sea to Central Asia, from the east to the Sinkian region to China, and from the west to the Danube River. The Scythians were Iranian both racially and linguistically, and they themselves were divided into different tribes such as Scythians, Dahe, Massagets, Amirgians, and even new and evolved tribes such as the Sarmatians and even the Parthians themselves. Nice try, but you cannot change the facts👍

[@LMJmGMfp]

how much of punjabi dna is Scythian?

[@K55365]

Interestingly Iran's mythical hero Rostam is referred to as Rostam e Sagzi (Rostam the Saka).

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@fanzy1338]

Yes and Saka is from old Persian referring to Scythians. In facts one of the Eastern provinces of Iran was named Sakistan meaning the land of Sakas which transliterated into Sistan in modern Persian.

[@fanzy1338]

We were taught in our history class in USA that Scythians were ethnically, culturally, and linguistically Iranian peoples.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

I think we'll need more evidence to decide one way or another, but that's certainly one leading theory. Thanks for watching!

[@Adil_Turysbek]

During Soviet Union there was an attempt to make Scythian Iranic people. So that Turkic people lose their history. But dna results show that Scythians had Ra1 z93 haplogroup. This dna is in abundance among Turkic people and Pashtuns. Although Scythians looked like Celts (light eyes and red hair) they came into contact with Mongoloid Huns and lost this phenotype. While those Scythians who fled to Afghanistan mixed with local Iranic tribes.

[@mrroyale5688]

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.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Interesting...

[@stanbatakarata6081]

Bro Roman Dokomentary bularian =ckytian , .Anastasiy, In 3-4 century spekk Bulgarian old name scytian.True online rok monoment in Europe in madara.Glod skytian dinasti monoment.Hevycavalery iron horsmen tipic from.Bulgarian army.Historycan true best hevycavalery in Europe 5 century ago .7-12

[@mrroyale5688]

The lily is the runic symbol of God. Scythian tattoos have these lilies pointing to the sky at the end of the antlers of the magnificent stag. In Hungarian folk art, there is such a representation of a stag on a salt cellar. What does it symbolise? I think the miraculous stag symbolises a state of communion with God. The word animal used to mean a state in the Hungarian language! This idea is reinforced by the fact that at the end of the antlers of the Scythian miraculous stag, in Hungarian runic script, you can find this. The head of the Scythian stag is an eagle's head. Is it necessary for the level of spirituality to become one with the celestial being in order to have a relationship with God? Yes, and the eagle is the most powerful celestial being. The back of the Scythian stag is twisted, the level around the heart is lifted up with the head. Do we need to lift our hearts and spirits and turn from our physicality to connect with God? The Scythian man had this tattoo on his shoulder.In Hungarian, shoulder, undertake and undertaking are related. The word "VÁLL" means shoulder. The meaning of the word "VÁLLAL" is: to commit oneself to something. The meaning of the word "VÁLLALÁS" is: obligation. The "God One" in Hungarian runic script, read from top to bottom, looks like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYram4OwfrZpopY time: 0:22. The top part has become the lily God symbol. The tattooed stag can be seen here: kzbin.infogQdTpTy4yG8

[@mrroyale5688]

In a Hungarian Christian church, a bird has this lily symbol of God on its head. Who does this bird represent? Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppDGg2l9fJuDj8U, time: 2:50

[@MrZomg17]

@World History Encyclopedia Red Hair Blue eyes? Would this mean THAT genetic trait was carried across along Europe headed West and ended up In Ireland where the Population was fixed and stationary and was able to replicate and sustain the Red Hair Blue eyes gene more readily?

[@MrZomg17]

I wonder if the Mongols were influenced by Scythians

[@exit5620]

The Irish, as are all white people in Europe, are the tribes of Israel. The harp symbol is the harp of David. The stone of scone is Jacobs pillar stone. The tribe of Dan are the Danish pple. Ray Capt and Sharon Turner has traced the Israelites into Europe. That's why the disciples went there to preach. When Jesus talks about the Isles, he was talking about the British isles. Joseph of Arimathea had tin mines in Cornwall.

[@hhttmmy8164]

@@exit5620 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hhttmmy8164]

@@exit5620 Europeans want to be apart of semetic and afro Asiatic history so bad 😂

[@bellalouise6867]

@@hhttmmy8164 I don't think so.

[@amankumar-zx1eo]

Oooo ,I always used to wonder that why in the series of world history,the major part of Russia around the Greeks and Persian times is not being highlited.now I got the reason.its because I think lack of sinthians popularity .and I think that most of the Russian slavs are from them

[@laderchik888]

Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns who were in most of the lands on the territory of Ukraine

[@MYNKM7]

Scythians were of the Eastern Iranian language group and me being a pashtun also of the Eastern Iranian language group, am closely related to these people as are the Ossetians,Pamiris,Shugnobi and yaghnobi people

[@valeriemoore9812]

They were like the mega police force along the eastern Black Sea. They had poison on their arrows.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@NiejakiDD]

I doubt the Scythians descended from the Celts, or vice versa. There are genetic / archeological arguments: - The haplogroup associated with proto-Celts is R1b (as well as with proto-Germanic, or proto-Italic) coveing most of West Europe. - while haplogroup of the Scythians is R1a (as a part of proto-Iranians, as well as proto-Balto-Slovians dwelling in Eastern Europe and much of Asia). Generally speaking, Vistula river and the Carpathians Mountains range were a border line not only between Germania and Scytia, but also between 2 main indoeuropean peoples R1b and R1a. In both haplogroups fair hair or red hair and blue eyes were / are common, and they acquire these physical features when they were still part of one indoeuropean people, so before 4000-3000 BCE probably. It means much earlier than both Scytian and Celtic ethnicities had formed. Celtic culture formed only about 700 BCE (Hallstat), Scythian culture formed about 1000-900 BCE (in early Iron Age, with rise of early horse cavalry in eurasian steppe).

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

We still need more evidence, that's true.

[@oguzhantekden]

"Since their language is Indo-eur*pean" is the shittiest and the worst argument I have ever seen. What source are you basing this on? What are you defending, citing as evidence? To make such a claim as if it were accepted, without providing any sources or arguments, is clearly nothing more than vile, Indo-eur*pean propaganda from the nineteenth century advocating white eur*pean supremacy. Currently, no archaeological, linguistic, or genetic data indicates that the Scythians spoke an Iranian language. There are those who "think" it is, based on just a few small pieces of data. You are trying to make the Scythians look like Indo-eur*peans by associating only a few words that may have passed into Scythians from other languages with their "similarity" to Iranian languages (not even directly proved though). However, on the other hand, there are dozens of Scythian word records with direct similarity with Turkic words. None of these words are found in Iranian languages. In addition, the Scythian ruins found around the Altai Mountains are another proof that the Scythians were not of Iranian origin. It is clear that the runes found in the ruins around Lake Issyk are not related to any Indo-eur*pean language or alphabet. A 6 year old child can also see that this script is clearly related to the Göktük alphabet, which was later completely deciphered. Yet by ignoring them, you dare to say "Since they spoke an Indo-eur*pean language" in support of theories that defend your white eur*pean supremacy.

[@oguzhantekden]

No genetic analysis shows that the Scythians were Indo-eur*pean. Based on the nonsense that R haplogroups belong entirely to Yamnaya people, you are trying to portray all ancient civilizations with R haplogroups from yourself. However, I have bad news for you. Racial/ethnic classification based on haplogroups is not scientific, and haplogroups that emerged thousands of years ago, even from cultural regions, cannot be associated with any nation/culture/ethnicity/race. Because these haplogroups spread among unrelated cultures even before the cultural regions emerged. I say this as a genetics student. You are still propagating nonsense, based on racist approaches from the nineteenth century, that have lost their scientific validity, and that the Indo-eur*peans are the spreasers of civilization and the highest civilization. Fortunately, with scientific studies in recent years, these genetic analyzes are interpreted more accurately and you cannot make propaganda. As before, the views that argue that a single haplogroup belongs to a nation are gradually disappearing with scientific studies, but unfortunately, pages like you continue to defend these mistakes. For instance, you have argued for years that the "high and mighty" civilization that domesticated the horse was also the Yamnaya people. However, this has been proven wrong with the remains of Botai Culture people whose existence has been known for years. It was the Botai culture that first domesticated the horse and taught other societies how to tame them, and we are sure of this today. But communities like you still ignore these facts and persistently support the nineteenth century argument that the Indo-eur*peans domesticated the horse and spread civilization around the world.

[@oguzhantekden]

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia you still say "We still need more evidence, that's true." and yet you dare to say they were Indo-eur*pean language speakers. LOL!

[@scythian404]

Love my scythian ancestors I'm from.punjab and only we Punjab sikh jatt who have pure scythian blood other countries scythian married with others tribe's but we jatts never marriage with any other tribe's we marriage in our tribe' only so we have pure scythian blood now we are sikhs and we saved our ancient scythian war and other thin we worship our ancient ancestors too our women's are worries too likenour.mother Amazon warriors

[@leestevens5546]

Why does the image of the Scythian in your intro picture look like they have African features?

[@mr.purple1779]

Asian rather than African.

[@Rajnasya]

@@mr.purple1779 indian and iranians

[@E-E.ADVENTUREGEARS]

​@@Rajnasya NOT INDIAN FOR SURE THEY INHABITED EURASIAN STEPP IRAN AND CAUCASUS

[@Rajnasya]

@@E-E.ADVENTUREGEARS sakas were not single people but mixture of various iranic and Indic tribes who adopted nomadism

[@mrroyale5688]

We call the celestial intermediary TURUL. Its symbol is the bird of prey as the most powerful celestial being in our earthly world. TURUL descends from the sky and has a fertilizing, world-preserving role. The magnificent stag is a symbol of the state of relationship with God. It connects the earthly world with the heavenly world.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

Here's a mind-blow for you. The Skythians left Scotland in Pre-Bronze times, and returned as Saxons.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

Keep fantasizing, clown))

[@jamessell1394]

Great video Scythian ornaments can be found in iran ..were real fighters in Iranian plateau.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@mrroyale5688]

The word HAL in Hungarian means both animal fish and the process of dying. On the Scythian tattoo, on the leg, there is a standing fish. ÁLL in Hungarian means the verb to stand. HAL+ÁLL: HALÁL. The word HALÁL in Hungarian means death. The tattoo is a warning that every step in our lives brings us closer to death. In the 10th century, this symbol is found on Hungarian canes. In the zodiac, Pisces is opposite Virgo. If Virgo is up and Pisces is down, and Virgo turns the Pisces around with her hand, this symbolizes the Virgo reversing death. This is not a mutant mermaid. This symbol can be found in Otranto, Italy and in the Hungarian church near Oradea.

[@AbdullahKhan-gm8zf]

Halal is also a pashto which means slaughtering

[@EasternOrthodox101]

🤺☦🇷🇺Keep fantasizing playing with words lol, but

[@EasternOrthodox101]

🤺☦🇷🇺Scythians are not Turks nor Hungarians, so keep fantasizing playing with words lol. Hungarians are not only mixed and have no Magyar dna even, but Magyars were a Finnic - their dna was haplogroup N, not the Scythian R1a-m420 subclades! So neither you or your Magyar ruling tribe were Scythians, so stop trying to hijack our Slavic heritage and identity! You have only

[@FATHERTIME91]

"I am a living energy frequency image socially adequate to basic knowledge of an entity"

[@beautifulnight3152]

i waiting yajuj majuj

[@shervanfarho2938]

هناك بحث كامل في علاقة السيثيين والميديين وأيضا الأشوريين🎉

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@professor0076]

sandy blonde or blonde?

[@stanbatakarata6081]

Bularian.=Scytian.Real and true argoment is Only in Europe Rock monoment in Madara.Scityan Hewy cavalery iron horseman.Аnd roman emperators spek in 4-5century old mane bulgarians Scytian.Docomentary.Thanks for good video.Greeting from Bulgaria 🇧🇬 ❤

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

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[@delaramsalmassi4063]

I have spoken to many Bulgarian historians and one of them were called Peter Todorov and he is a historian and he told me personally the Bulgarians are an Aryan/Iranic/Iranian/Indo - Iranian people who are descended from the Aryan/Iranic/Iranian tribes such as the Saka people and the Scythians and the Sarmatians and the Alans!

[@saddozaiproduction]

Ates and Phillip in 3 BC? doesn't sound right considering Philip died over 200 years ago

[@samaval9920]

Very interesting! However, others say that Alan’s conquered? & assimilated Scythian & Sarmatian and Scythian remnants in medieval Caucasus. Modern partial descendants are N Issetians now in Russia,& S Ossetians, ex Georgia but now independent, due Russian military aid.At least some S Ossetians wanted ton(re) join Russian Federation,, but President Vladimir Putinnhad them remain independent, but granted dual citizenship- Russian &’S Ossetian, See travelogue videos on current S Ossetia language comparison- S Ossetian speaker & other Iranian speakers. in Bahador Alast videos under his name.

[@saeedm9368]

According to the great book of Shahnameh of Ferdosi, Gord Afarid the Scythian girl of Sistan ( Land of Scythian in south Afghaniatan and south east of Iran) engaged in an epic battle against prince Sohrab son of the Aryan king Goshtasb of Bacteria

[@MrHoonza]

Nowadays Mongols ancestors made 3 time great movement done. Great Mongols Pax Mongolica, Huns & Scythians. Scythian means Esgiit/Эсгийт - Эсгий туургатан. In English Felt rug. Celts are descendants of them. Cause Celt means one language in Mongolian Хэлт. It proves they were pronunciation & linguistic were same

[@laderchik888]

The Mongols have nothing to do with the Scythians and Huns. Scythians and Huns are directly related to Ukraine

[@MrHoonza]

@@laderchik888 Stupid Ukrainian's origin is Russian slavic. Russians are received own historical truth. It means smarter than them. Europian's origin is Indo-Parthia, Arabic gypsies. Satan's slaves don't steal truth!!! LoL😂

[@benjamindo8142]

@laderchik888 the ancient huns were a nomadic confederacy of multi ethnic groups who also include protomongol tribes, to say they have no relation clearly invalidates anything you say. Majority of huns were of northeast asian descent before migrating westward. Also, there are 3 pillars on the grasslands of Mongolia that represented the 3 great steppe empires/civilizations, xiongnu/hun, gokturk & mongol. The word hun in mongol also means "people"... essentially descendents of these steppe empires

[@EasternOrthodox101]

​@@laderchik888🇷🇺☦️🤝☪️🇵🇸Wrong too🤦Huns were a Turkic race, defined by haplogroup Q2 and are ancestors of Turkmens, and Scythians are ancestors of ALL Slavic race, not just "ukraine" (lil Russia), defined by haplogroup R1a, so get education

[@EasternOrthodox101]

​@@benjamindo8142So what? We're talking about their original race in the beginning which is represented by their ruling tribe and it is TURKIC = haplogroup Q2

[@michaelbarclay1280]

see robert sepehr you tube for a more on the schthians like the scots

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

👍🏻 Thanks for watching!

[@MH-ro1lg]

Scythian warriors would ride around with scalp napkins tied to their horses to display their social standing.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you for watching!

[@blu9371]

Dacians had red hair too. Even the gets. A part of romanians ancestors were scythians.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

👍

[@cheleftb]

My ancient dna results led me here 💭👀☕✍🏾

[@madden1170]

Started researching my family ancestry, kept seeing we were a "Milnesian family" descended from a Scythian prince and Egyptian princess that invaded western Ireland, colonized it and ruled it.

[@mrroyale5688]

In a Hungarian Christian church, a bird has this lily symbol of God on its head. Who does this bird represent? Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppDGg2l9fJuDj8U, time: 2:50

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Interesting. Thanks for watching!

[@blacked2987]

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