Scythian women: Did you mean...?

The First World War (1914-18) saw fighting on an unprecedented scale but also involved civilians as never before. For the first time, people hundreds of miles from the fighting front...

Golden female headdress from the Meothian culture (4th century BCE) found in the Karagodeuashkh kurgan in the Transkuban region, Krasnodar territory, Crimea. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Scythian gold plaque, showing a stag. Western Asia, 5th-4th century BCE. Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

A map illustrating the current archeological evidence for the spread of the Scythians in the northern Black Sea region. It shows the distribution of the most notable ‘kurgans’ and monumental burial...

Scythian gold appliqués. Treasure Gallery, Altes Museum, Berlin.

A Google Earth image of the Scythian territorial expanse. Google Earth (Data: SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO, Image: Landsat / Copernicus)

Scythian belt buckle, Southern Siberia, 3rd century BCE. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

This collection presents biographies of 21 famous women from world history but those included represent only a small fraction of the many women, from ancient times to the present, who have made a lasting impression...

Family planning was a topic of vital importance in the ancient Mediterranean. Some of the earliest medical literature from ancient Greece and Rome deals with fertility and reproductive health. Among the numerous...

In this gallery, we showcase images of 30 influential women from the Middle Ages. Usually dated from c. 500 to c. 1500, this was a complex and transformative period in European history filled with...