The Scythians were among the first people to dominate large parts of Central Asia. Explore their nomadic lifestyle, and their excavated burial mounds, showing spectacular grave goods with great artistic sophistication, and their penchant for mass human sacrifice. Study their interactions with sedentary peoples and the Persians and review astonishing archaeological findings that confirm some of the more outlandish parts of Herodotus’s account of the Scythians from the fourth century BCE.