Scythians: Golden Horses & Swift Arrows

Join us on a cultural journey from the comfort of your own home to meet a legendary people.

It was on the world’s first “superhighway”—the vast grasslands of the Eurasian steppe which stretch from modern-day Ukraine to the edges of China—that horses were probably domesticated around 5,000 years ago. The cultures that emerged from this sea of grass developed an essential partnership with horses that has endured thousands of years. The Scythians are one of the most fascinating and enigmatic of these groups, celebrated as an arrow-shooting, nomadic culture of horse people known for their extravagant tombs and astonishingly beautiful goldwork. Discover how they exerted such a powerful influence on steppe history and why horses and nomads played such a significant role in the region.

Welcome delivered by the Ukrainian Consul General, The Honorable Vitalii Tarasiuk.

Presented by Dr. Carolyn WIllekes, Asst. Prof., Mount Royal University

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Sunday, April 14, 2024, 2pm

Wikimedia Commons. Scythian gold comb with the image of a battle scene, from the Solokha kurgan, 430-390 BC