A few quick notes: 1) I am sure by now a few of you have noticed the schedule is a bit off for this project--life has been happening, to put it lightly 2) Unfortunately Arzhan 1 has been looted, so we don't have many photographs of the complex, really we have sketches as our main visuals 3) "Project Scythia" is now organized into its own playlist 4) There is one kurgan, "Arzhan 0", which probably predates this one but research is ongoing, and it will eventually get its own video

@28lobster28

8 ай бұрын

On the last slide, you said butchered but you wrote "buttered". I like to think that means you support the feast theory rather than the sacrifice theory.

@deathsheadknight2137

8 ай бұрын

@@28lobster28 mmmm.. buttered beasts

In my neighbourhood there is a kurghan circle. Nobody knows why, nobody knows what for. No archealogist ever came here. The circle will probably fade out of memory, unbothered. With unknown treasures hidden below. I live in polish Pomerania region. I think its Celtic.

@Ian-yf7uf

8 ай бұрын

Can we see it on Google maps? Have you ever photographed or filmed it?

@qboxer

8 ай бұрын

Possibly Yamnaya or Corded Ware?

@zenatrue7613

8 ай бұрын

Could be Tatar. We got them by Ropczyce, w podkarpackim województwie.

@aurath

8 ай бұрын

I know why it's cause da kurghan put a circle there dummy

@yoeyyoey8937

8 ай бұрын

Why don’t you just dig it up?

In Jirentai Goukou, Yili, Xinjiang, there is a new discovery of a late bronze age stone pyramid dating between 15th-16th century BC. I was one of the exccavator of the pyramid.

@terradeveracruz

7 ай бұрын

I would wish achive some knowlegde about it, piramids are one of my interests. Can we exchange emails?

@lo-fihi-ki5699

3 ай бұрын

Where’s the evidence ?

I am really enjoying this entire series, which is filling a chasm in my knowledge of these nomad cultures. Thank you!

@TheFallofRome

8 ай бұрын

You’re welcome!

Every new discovery of the steppe just blows me away.

Around the 10 minute mark, the graphic showing the layout of the tomb has text on the right listing it's contents. The last bullet point refers to 'buttered' animals, which sounds delicious but I think it was supposed to be 'butchered' animals. Also delicious-sounding but not quite as good as 'buttered'. Anyway, good and interesting video, thanks.

@abandoninplace2751

8 ай бұрын

Nah that just means cats.

@heidimariebee

Ай бұрын

Buttered and butcherd, probably

Most illuminating!

That was pretty fascinating. Thanks.

Good stuff. Interesting to think of a key force in eurasian history as the dialectic between settled agriculture societies and nomadic herding societies

Way cool. This is the first time I had heard of Scythian burial practices. Thanks.

Is it possible the dead riders/mounts all around the tomb may have been captured ennemies or that the gear buried with them been acquired through tribute or trade?

@TheFallofRome

8 ай бұрын

I suppose that’s possible. As far as I am aware though, the archaeologists really aren’t certain. The idea that they were retainers of some kind is usually what is accepted because that shows up in multiple textual accounts of both the Scythians and of other nomadic cultures

love your channel. great video!

Loving this series, keep it up!

Great vid, thanks for the upload. One question though - what is a 'buttered animal'? Seen referenced on the lower right hand side of the writing @ 10:00

@TheFallofRome

8 ай бұрын

That is supposed to be “butchered”. Guess I didn’t catch that during the editing

@Vandal_Savage

8 ай бұрын

@@TheFallofRome oh! OK, I thought I'd discovered a new terminology I was unaware of 😆

@steelmote

8 ай бұрын

@@Vandal_Savage I came looking for this comment. I'm still craving slaughtered buttered animal though... pork chops, anyone?

Thank you for the constant uploads, i always enjoy your content and trust your research, cymru ye byth, love from wales

Loving the content

I could listen about history for hours... So If you ever get the urge to make a video say about 3 plus hours long just know that I'll be watching it multiple times. Just saying

Arzhan is Man Name in Iran Also Arzhang Arzhdar Arzh Arzhin Arzheges Means Fury and Anger For Example Arzhdar Means "Fury of the Sea " Also use For "Torpedo" in Iran

Very very interesting. They will be one of civilizations in my Civ like video game which is under development.

Oh do you know of any Asian herding committees that use a reading system similar to Knots reading by ropes. i know some have rugs and they can tell tales but any that are very/somewhat complex?

I wonder how the sacrificed retinue relates to overall population. How many people were needed to feed, cloth, equip, support, etc each individual laying in each room?

Like all later nomads, Scythians must have originated in the east and then migrated westwards.

@qboxer

8 ай бұрын

But having originally come from the western steppe, as the Yamnaya.

@harlaneric7963

8 ай бұрын

@@qboxer not necessarily. Yamnaya primarily R1b, and the halplogroup R* originated in the Altai Mountains, knowns as the Malta Boy.

@yerzhansadyrbalin8801

8 ай бұрын

Exactly, and the had turanic type faces or mongolic, most probably they were pro Turkic languages

@qboxer

8 ай бұрын

@@harlaneric7963 that is not my understanding from the read of genetics; rather, these haplogroups all originated in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe and subsequently left, going east (Altai) and West

@harlaneric7963

8 ай бұрын

@@qboxer where did haplogroup R and Q split from P? Inner Asia

Roughly a Millennium. A single thousand years is called a Millennium. Millennia is the plural. Grammar note.

No mention of the contributions of marija gimbutas?

You should put Tuva or Tannu Tuva in the title.

Could this be a Scythian's Burial Mound that was built After a Great Battle Were the Leader was killed along with those in the Mound. With people from far away who came to fight the Battle. The Survivors then out of Great respect Built these mounds and over time Continued to Have the Same Reverence and Respect for Future Scythian Kings and all their Brother who fell in Battle?.

Hmmm, thanks.

Is that the one where weed was found ?

@kenrudd6362

8 ай бұрын

you a cop?

@telebubba5527

8 ай бұрын

That's further down the road and then to your right, go up the stairs and slide down the pole.

Christopher I. Beckwith, relying heavily on an astonishing knowledge of linguistics and ancient languages, shows in his latest book that the Scythians were a single people speaking a single language, with a monotheistic religion, who created an actual empire that strongly influenced the Near East, China, and everywhere in between. This contradicts traditional scholarship. (The book has a title something like "The Scythian Empire". Heavy reading.) He regards the Medes as fragmented peoples (speaking many languages) brought together during 28 years of Scythian rule and adopting Scythian ways including language. This helps explains how the Medes suddenly became so powerful (having thrown off the Scythian rule), the primary destroyers of Assyria. Cyrus then took over the Scytho-Mede empire, and Darius took over Cyrus' empire, not so much war as revolution.

@yerzhansadyrbalin8801

8 ай бұрын

We do not have evidences of the Scythian languages , some words only names

@LewisPulsipher

8 ай бұрын

@@yerzhansadyrbalin8801 He uses those, of course. And he appears to equate Scythian with Median and Avestan (those being dialects of Scythian)(and goes into great detail). No way I can convey hundreds of pages and thousands of references here, of course.

@yerzhansadyrbalin8801

8 ай бұрын

But certainly it was one culture from Mongolia till the Moldova region, including south part of the Kazakhstan and even Afghanistan. Really astonishing

@yerzhansadyrbalin8801

8 ай бұрын

@@LewisPulsipher we shall not trust soviet/Russian historical data, because they have used history for politics . So when ukok princes was found in early 2000, they stated that it is the scull of the Indo-European, but Austrian one’s when get this scull clearly pointed mongolic features. And it is saka/Scythian culture. We have many other examples where they Manipulate with the info.

Sakas no Scythians Y Q1a1, R1a-Z93, C, N. Even from the 480 BC Greece Himera battleground graves two Steppe mercenary warriors Sakas were Y haplogroups R1a-Z93 and N.

Scythian had horses and a Scythian empire like Göktürk Khaganate possible.

Younger Women nothing changes. eh might be his daughter. but probably his way younger wife.

@tsopmocful1958

8 ай бұрын

Do you somehow resent that fact?

I live in a kurghan...just waiting to die.

Are the Scythians an Indo-Aryan people or are they Turkic?

@alienozdamar

3 ай бұрын

Proto-Magyar, Proto-Bulgar, Proto-Turkic

@David_Sirovsky

Ай бұрын

most likely they spoke one of the Iranian dialects

The issik inscription is now proven as iranic language 😀

I firmly think Science has unearthed only the tip of the iceberg about the great scythian culture. Scythian metallurgy was highly developed far more advanced than its contemporary neighbourd as it can be seen from the golden horse-shape artcrafts. In June a group of archeologist discovered in Nordlingen, south germany, an ancient tomb with remains of a warrior and his family. Resting on his chest there was a bronze sword of an extraordinay shape and exquisite details. The sword has been dated back from the mid 12th century BC!!! This artifact should not exist at that period of time. The manufacture of this sword was obviously extraordinary as it is in a perfectly preserved state. Scythes are mentioned in Homer's Iliad as allies to Troy. My guess is that they scouted over central Europe as they were passionate voyagers.

You forgot to mention that buried ones had Mongolic sculls, or as Russians says has mongolic features, which mean turanic type. It is confronts with the theory or Iranian origin or Iranian speakers

@David_Sirovsky

Ай бұрын

10 skulls were extracted from the Arzhan burial grounds. 9 of them are Caucasoid and only one is Mongoloid

Don’t want to sound like the 🤓☝️guy but it’s pronounced skythians, cool video otherwise

@TheFallofRome

8 ай бұрын

Either pronunciation is acceptable with most scholars. The original Greek is the hard “k”, you’re right, but in its anglicized form it’s soft. Similar to the different pronunciations of “Caesar”

@kenrudd6362

8 ай бұрын

yea it's not actually its ackually

All evidences strongly suggest that Scythians were Turkic. Its disgusting to see that the main stream tries to categorize many ancient groups as Indo-European WITHOUT ANY sufficient clues. By the way, the correct pronunciation is ESKAYS, drived from original Turkic name Ashkuz.

@David_Sirovsky

Ай бұрын

The Scythians themselves never called themselves "ishkuza". Their self-name was "skolota"

What is the gold sculpture at 1:40? I would like to know more about this one please.

@TheFallofRome

8 ай бұрын

That is a gold ornament discovered at Kul’oba. It’s probably depicting the Scythian goddess Api, or Apa as it’s sometimes written

Arzhan /ارژن / is an Iranian Male Name It Means the Angry Lion It is even the name of a beautiful plain in the south of Iran en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasht-e_Arzhan

@yerzhansadyrbalin8801

8 ай бұрын

You can translate it from Turkic as a ar zhan which mean men soul. It is modern name of Tuva people which inhabits know those places. No Iranian origin

@MM-fv1pi

8 ай бұрын

Iranian is NOT a language nor any ethnic group. Its only a CITIZENSHIP. and Scythians were most likely Turkic.

@MM-fv1pi

8 ай бұрын

​@@yerzhansadyrbalin8801AR means human, chivalrous or husband in many Turkic dialects. Jan means life in all Turkic languages.

@EsfandiarNokhodaki

8 ай бұрын

@@MM-fv1pi Scythians Were Caucasoid and Spoke With Iranian Language

@EsfandiarNokhodaki

8 ай бұрын

@@yerzhansadyrbalin8801 Lol Look At Those Scythian Name's Išpakaia Bartatua Madyes Spargapeithes Lykos Saulius Gnouros Idanthyrsus Scyles Ariapeithes Octamasadas Ateas Agaros Āḍuthuma Kharapallāna Tabiti Sodasa Sauromaces Nahapāna Amage And etc... All those names are Iranian or Hellenized Iranian names ! Famous orientalist Vladimir Minorsky: Whenever there is an incomprehensible and unresolved issue in history, the Turks are the first to claim that unresolved issue.