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The Scythians - Lost Civilizations

English · Hardback

Will be released 01.05.2026

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Reimagines the Scythians as highly mobile cultural innovators.

The Scythians offers a bold new take on the horse-riding peoples who once inhabited the vast steppe lands from the Black Sea to the Siberian Altai. Drawing on archaeological finds, ancient texts, and comparative insights, Caspar Meyer shows how these communities forged dynamic networks rooted in art, mobility, and interspecies relationships. He brings ancient and modern encounters with the Scythians into dialogue--from Herodotus' ethnography to modernist art and contemporary national imagination--revealing how their literary and visual afterlives continue to shape our understanding. Long reduced to barbarian stereotypes, the Scythians emerge as cultural innovators and co-creators of Eurasian history. Lively, accessible, and thought-provoking, this book opens up a world where people and things move together in unexpected and transformative ways.

Product details

Authors Caspar Meyer
Publisher Reaktion Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 01.05.2026
 
EAN 9781836391937
ISBN 978-1-83639-193-7
No. of pages 240
Illustrations 78 illustrations, 55 in colour
Series Lost Civilizations
Subjects History, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Central Asia, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Siberia

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