The Scythians were among the most ruthless warrior the world has ever seen – they were fundamentally the ancient combining weight of a bike gang , albeit 10 fourth dimension as terrifying . These origin - drinking , marihuana - smoking , tattooed nomad know among the immense stretches of Siberia between 900 to 200 BCE .
For the first fourth dimension in nearly 2,000 age , the face of a Scythian warrior has been revealed . The drumhead of one of these mummified warriors is hold out on showat an exhibitionat the British Museum in London this week .
A CT scan of the head teacher revealed a severe injury to his skull . It appears that his side was smashed with a blunt target , result in a turgid crack from his eye socket to his jaw . The top of his skull also had a hole in it where his brain had been removed for cold gangrene .
Much of the story of this culture continue fall behind for centuries in the depths of Siberia . Until around 300 years ago , the macrocosm only knew about the Scythians through odd pieces of text from other cultures , most of whom appear to be dead terrorize by them . The Scythians , themselves , were not too penetrating on the write word and were likely illiterate .
Their self-aggrandising cultural legacy was being one of the first warriors tomaster Equus caballus - mounted war . It ’s believed they were one of the earliest polish to use bows shot from hogback . Along with this unique acquirement , they took to the battlefield with pointed battle - axes , brusque sword for close fight , muscular bow for tenacious - length archery , and paint wooden cuticle . Over the centuries , they fight ( and were feared by ) many of the great ancient refinement , such as the Greeks , the Assyrians , and the Persians .
Many of their lose artifacts have since been excavated from the Siberian permafrost and have made their way to London , including weapons , gold jewelry , pelt - lined wearable , horse , and mummified bodies . They even have a tattooed sheet of skin off the trunk of a warrior .
The BP exhibition Scythians : warrior of ancient Siberia , running from September 14 , 2017 , to January 14 , 2018 , at the British Museum , features over 200 of these rare artifacts , include a major loanword of objective from the State Hermitage Museum , St Petersburg . It ’s the first sentence many of these object have ever left Russia .
