Scythian soldier, Kalchayan
Scythian soldier, Kalchayan "Another helmet that may have a Hellenic (or part-Hellenic) inspiration is the earlier first century BCE helmet of the Khalchayan sculptures of Greco-Ba
On 21 June 1971, Borys Mozolevsky made a remarkable discovery near the Ukrainian village of Ordzhonikidze. As he lifted a slab of earth in a Scythian burial mound, a coiled gold pectoral weighing over a kilogram was revealed. This find, adorned with herdsmen, animals, and mythical beasts, marked the greatest discovery in over 260 years of excavating the Scythian burial mounds, known as kurgans. These mounds, scattered across Ukraine, southern Russia, and the Siberian Altai, are the primary sources of knowledge about the Scythians, a confederation of horse-riding nomads who dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe from the 7th to the 3rd century BC. The Scythians, first recorded by Assyrian scribes in the seventh century BC, were an Iranian-speaking people. See our article on the Gold of the Dead: Inside the Royal Kurgans of the Scythians.
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