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Scythian gold sword and scabbard.
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Title: Scythian gold sword and scabbard.
Caption: Scythian gold sword and scabbard. The scabbard has a representation of the intertwined beasts and gryphons of the Inner Earth. From Bolschaja Beloserka. Museum of Historic Treasures of Ukraine, Kiev. Image released to the press in 2009. The Scythians were an ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in the west.
Credit: Album / Pictures From History/Universal Images Group
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Image size: 5300 × 3519 px | 53.4 MB
Print size: 44.9 × 29.8 cm | 2086.6 × 1385.4 in (300 dpi)
