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The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe

by Barry Cunliffe

Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south – the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks – and there we

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication date

Dec 01, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

408

ISBN

9780198820123