Archaeologists in Ukraine have discovered red lumps of cinnabar — a mineral form of the highly toxic chemical mercury sulfide — in a 1,900-year-old double burial of two Scythian women, according to a ...

The ancient Greeks mythologized the Amazons, but these legendary female warriors were inspired by the very real nomadic Scythian women of Central Asia. With the help of recent archaeological findings, ...

Around 2,500 years ago in Siberia, a young woman experienced a serious head injury, underwent surgery to reconstruct her jaw, and received a primitive prosthetic during the procedure, CT scans of the ...