Issedones were were an ancient people of Central Asia described by Herodotus (c. 484–c. 425 BC) in his History (IV.16-25) and by Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c.&thins… Read More

ARIMASPI, an ancient people in the extreme N.E. of Scythia, probably the eastern Altai. All accounts of them go back to a poem by Aristeas of Proconnesus, from whom Herodotus (iii. 116… Read More