These are original photos of the Pazyryk rug, known as the world's oldest carpet, dating back to the 4th–3rd centuries BC. It was found in 1949 in the grave of a Scythian nobleman in the valley of the Altai Mountains in Kazakhstan. The carpet not only depicts deer or elks with their internal organs, including a heart, aorta and intestines, but also clearly portrays blonde, bearded men riding horses.
Most ancient descriptions from Greek, Persian, and Chinese sources mention the physical appearance of the Scythians as what we today would describe as European. They were unusually tall, red or fair-haired people with blue or grey eyes. Both men and women were skilled warriors and usually tattooed.
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, equated the Scythians and the Goths with the Biblical Gog and Magog –“barbarians who come from the extreme north, where there are islands”. This also draws similarities to the theories of Indian nationalist and scholar Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who wrote in his book “The Arctic Home in the Vedas” (1903), that the homeland of the Aryan or in modern words Indo-European race is the Arctic and that verses from the Rigveda, one of the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, support his theory.
Although there is a widespread assumption among Western historians that the Scythians were people of Iranian descent, these are unproven theories dating back to the 18th century and not confirmed by modern DNA analysis. Please note that there is not a single ancient source that describes the Scythians or their cousins the Sarmatians as Iranic or Persian. All theories about the Scythians being Iranic were added by modern historians and are not based on direct quotations from ancient sources.
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These are original photos of the Pazyryk rug, known as the world's oldest carpet, dating back to the 4th–3rd centuries BC. It was found in 1949 in the grave of a Scythian nobleman in the valley of the Altai Mountains in Kazakhstan. The carpet not only depicts deer or elks with their internal organs, including a heart, aorta and intestines, but also clearly portrays blonde, bearded men riding horses.
Most ancient descriptions from Greek, Persian, and Chinese sources mention the physical appearance of the Scythians as what we today would describe as European. They were unusually tall, red or fair-haired people with blue or grey eyes. Both men and women were skilled warriors and usually tattooed.
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, equated the Scythians and the Goths with the Biblical Gog and Magog –“barbarians who come from the extreme north, where there are islands”. This also draws similarities to the theories of Indian nationalist and scholar Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who wrote in his book “The Arctic Home in the Vedas” (1903), that the homeland of the Aryan or in modern words Indo-European race is the Arctic and that verses from the Rigveda, one of the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, support his theory.
Although there is a widespread assumption among Western historians that the Scythians were people of Iranian descent, these are unproven theories dating back to the 18th century and not confirmed by modern DNA analysis. Please note that there is not a single ancient source that describes the Scythians or their cousins the Sarmatians as Iranic or Persian. All theories about the Scythians being Iranic were added by modern historians and are not based on direct quotations from ancient sources.
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