Arzhan: Siberia’s Valley of the Kings, Buried in Scythian Gold
In the high steppes of Tuva, the Arzhan kurgans hold the earliest and most dazzling evidence of Scythian gold, horse sacrifice, and a lost steppe aristocracy.
Panticapaeum: Where Greek Columns Met Scythian Gold
Founded by Milesian settlers on the Kerch Strait, Panticapaeum became the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom, a hub of grain trade where Greek and Scythian worlds fused.
Pazyryk: The Frozen Tombs That Preserved an Age in Ice
High in the Altai Mountains, ice preserved the tattooed bodies, oldest knotted carpet, and whole horses of Iron Age steppe nomads in astonishing detail.
