An ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic confederation that dominated the Pontic Steppe and briefly raided into West Asia, shaping early steppe cultural patterns.
Gradually displaced and absorbed by the Sarmatians from the east beginning in the 4th century BCE, with the last remnant Scythian kingdom in Crimea conquered by the Goths circa 250 CE.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Scythian Kingdom — the shape you scrub through changes in 800 BC · 550 BC · 300 BC.
Places the Scythians within the long arc of steppe empire-building from the Bronze Age onward.
The classic panorama of Eurasia's nomadic civilizations, opening with the Scythians of the Pontic Steppe and their place at the start of the steppe-empire tradition.