Scythians: the alternative lifestyle of antiquity 

In 1975 I saw the Scythian exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Art. I believe it was in association with the Met Museum in New York. Did anyone else attend that one? I still remember the long entrance line. Los Angeles was fascinated! The display was impressive. Since then I have respected Scythian art. In fact, I still have the reproduction golden stag with folded legs, displayed in this video - two in fact: my own and the one I gave to my now deceased mother for Christmas.

I had no idea that Bullwinkle was Scythian. You learn something every day.

Wow, what great and beautifully crafted and preserved pieces. I'm quite up on the ancient of Britain and various European ancients, and a bit of Africa. But I've never heard of these guys before, they're artwork is awesome, and as equally beautiful and well made as any other ancient culture that I've seen before. Thank-you to the channel and the museum for uploading such marvels, and for bringing this into my life too.

The audio needs fixing. I can barely hear his voice, as it is lower than the background music. But otherwise, this seems like a great exhibition! I wish I could go.

So many people had lived in this Planet... amazing..

Wow, that's some amazing craftsmanship!

This looks so awesome, I can't wait to see it

0:52 Bullwinkle was the ultimate time traveler

The objects displayed are as beautiful as any I have seen from Rome. Very impressive.

This was a great description of people I have never heard of! Their artifacts are amazing! Thank you for this new insight.

The more I learn about recent (post-Younger Dryas) history, the more I wonder about the amazing number of arrows on maps pointing out of North-Eastern Europe. I wonder what was so special about that area that led to so many influences, from the push into the Americas, to the later waves into Western & South-Western Europe. And ditto about the sound level.

the background music is a little loud

So his first name is St John? i thought that would be pronounced as Saint John, but he literally says "St John". Never encountered this in a first name, please enlighten me

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how did the felts survive to modern day? I couldnt find anything about where they were found

They made all this great stuff, and somehow they ended up getting put on the naughty steppe

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]

I think they were not typical nomads.

Music VERY loud... voice-over rather quiet

Saka people were and are the Iranian nomads ! not only in southern Siberia but also all around the Caspian sea and north west Iran !

They've been known to mix one helluva White Russian.

Saint John is his first name? Also is that a depiction of a moose? So moose were found in western asia at some point?

They was Eastern Iranian people

Step, Nomad, Horse/Horse milk/Horse riders, Trousers, Kurgan culture is a protoTurk (Cimmerian, Scythian, Sak, Sarmatian, Massaget,Thrakian/Frakian, Hun, Alan, Avar, Bulgar, Magyar, Peceneg, Khazar...) culture from Altai to Danube!

So what if they were bigenders?

Ossetians -Scythians , Sarmatians, Alans

Some of those objects are from the Romanian Treasure (Tezaurul Romanesc ) sent to the Russian's for safe kepping in the WW2 and they didn't returend it since then . Now they are tacking it out and claiming that is a schytian treasure . :D Funny how you forge history .

St John Simspon did a lot of mistakes: 1°The Scythian Culture was normal that men and women they fought in Riots. 2°And he is telling that theme by the point of view of the Persians.

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They didn't orginate from Siberia! They originated from Central Asia in Afghanistan and Kyrgyztan and lived there! And they did live in cities, their kin the Bactrians founded the BMAC and Schytians were Semi-Nomadic

... and they smoked weed!

Bronze Moose! 😀

They were also known for crossdressing.

LMAO 'first great nomad power'??? Hi from Australia

how do we know they spoke Irainian/Persian? It is also interesting that Japaneese is supposed to be closly related to Turkic and there is at least one tribe in north eastern Siberia that speak a version of Turkic...funny how populations/DNA and language flows

Yeah, yeah, better still, return the stolen Parthenon marbles to Greece!

They weren’t nomads, me thinks, not in the traditional sense. This wondrous cultural could not have this high art if not for some stability. Not Mongolian either.

They were drunk Kumis ,thats why They were Proto Türks not İranian.

I thought the Scythians where turkic speaking?

Являются ли русские потомками скифов: нет, не скифы мы В начале I тысячелетия н.э. скифы были уничтожены сарматами. Под сарматами ученые бесспорно понимают семиреченских саков, выходцев с южного Казахстана. При этом Платон писал, что сарматы в быту ничем не отличаются от скифов, говорят на их языке, но неправильно. Другими словами, и сарматы, и скифы принадлежали с родственным пратюркским народам. Поэтому, очевидно, скифы не были уничтожены сарматами, а ассимилированы ими. В IV веке сарматы, в свою очередь, были ассимилированы хуннами, известными в Европе как гунны, выходцами из Центральной Азии, все так же пратюркским народом. С VII века в Причерноморье приходит новая волна тюркских народов. В этот раз миграция была обусловлена расширением Первого (Западного) тюркского каганата. zen.yandex.ru/media/sibguide/iavliaiutsia-li-russkie-potomkami-skifov-net-ne-skify-my-5e82be45a4b70d29713d37ca?fbclid=IwAR0T7U5IOW_mclKaq-ainvbdlSehvuFH0fyg5a2qM3IerxrthvFMsDlhcd4

Shame you British Museum and british people, you are stollen the gold , the culturale heritage and history of hungarian people , shame you for end of the times -what means that -they are south siberian tribes but speak an iranian language , shame you for eternity .

"we don't even know the genders of the people who made these objects " oh for crying out loud it's everywhere. look it was probably all made by blokes whilst their wives looked after their kids.

I didn't realize Bullwinkle was so old!