Scythians: History and Culture (Documentary)

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  @kimberlyperrotis8962 · 2 years ago

  Archaeology has proved Herodotus correct time and time again.  For example, he said the Skythians sometimes burned hemp seeds on bronze tripods inside their tents.  Historians didn’t believe this until archaeological excavations proved it was true.  (This might have been part of a religious ritual?).  Of course, Herodotus didn’t get every single thing right, who does?  But, he actually visited most of the places and peoples he wrote about, gathered their histories, looked at their cultural practices and wrote down what he learned.  He also gathered first-hand accounts from natives of other regions.  He was the first true factual historian, he notes what is hearsay, legend, etc., and what he saw or heard himself.  History means “researches” and is a discipline that he invented.

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  @Erosblest · 1 year ago

  Man, every time I hear about these historic tombs being robbed it absolutely ruins my day. How selfish people are to deprive us of such priceless artifacts and history.

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  @BraveGisgo · 2 years ago

  AMAZING VIDEO!!! By far the best production on the scythians ive seen on youtube!

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  @TimeStrangerDigimon · 2 years ago

  The greek letter &apos;&apos;x&apos;&apos; often used for names of those Ancient western &amp; eastern Iranian cultures should be pronounced as &apos;&apos;Khsh&apos;&apos; .<br>For example &apos;&apos;Roxolani&apos;&apos; was probably pronounced as &apos;&apos;Rokhsholani&apos;&apos; in Sarmatian languages. &apos;&apos;Roxana&apos;&apos; a sogdian name refered by the greeks was pronounced as &apos;&apos;Rokhshana&apos;&apos; by the natives in the region &amp; even today &amp; the famouse persian king Xerxes (Xer&apos;xes) from the Medo-Persian language was &apos;&apos;Khshyer khsha&apos;&apos; or in modern persian &apos;&apos;Khshayar sha&apos;&apos;.<br>If we follow this pattern then Targitias sons names would have been Lipakhsha, Arpakhsha, Cloakhsha.

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• KA

  @kalixkatt · 2 years ago

  Nice documentary, always joyfull to find a new high quality history channel.

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• TI

  @TimeStrangerDigimon · 2 years ago (edited)

  The Sistan province of Iran is home to the last Skan/scythians who left the steps after hunnic invasion ,it was known as &apos;&apos;Skistan&apos;&apos; in the older times, and was changed to Sistan after the domination of the muslims. althaugh during the mongol invasion most of these folks been beheaded due to their comparetive skills in archery and horse back to the mongols. the famouse Iranian story says: when the mongol&apos;s khan after long battles finally captured Skistan and sow the hight of their men and women, he was furiouse and because a mongol could not defeat a man from sistan on foot, he ordered that every skistani beheaded so that there be no stop for the mongols in persia and beyond. it was belived that people of eastern Iran and afghanistan were very tall, they are even paintings from classical era that proves that folklore&apos;s description of mongols were true. Even the Greeks told about the Scythians being very tall. by the time of the mongols the last of Scythians of the east were killed in south eastern Iran. If one reads the mongol invasion of persia, you will learn that the mongols were defeated by khwarazmian army twice only in Sistan of Iran, because the Skistanis still practiced their ancesstral lifestyle untill that time.

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• WI

  @Williams.L · 2 years ago

  Many thanks for including subtitles ❤️

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  @oO-_-_-_-Oo · 1 year ago

  Outstanding presentations such as this are much appreciated. &nbsp;Thank you!

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  @chrism9493 · 1 year ago

  Thanks for detailing the construction of their bows, that was very interesting.

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• KI

  @kieranwhoriskey7270 · 2 years ago

  Randall Carlson starts going crazy at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOdWWtASikc&amp;t=3479">57:59</a> lol

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• KI

  @kimberlyperrotis8962 · 2 years ago

  I love the consistently excellent quality of your videos, thank you.🙂

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  @kathywright6853 · 1 year ago

  I had no idea there were so many artifacts from these people,very interesting all around❤

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