The golden burial of a Scythian king In 2001, more than 5,000 gold objects were discovered in an untouched Scythian burial in…
It is a building like no other at Akrotiri. Now known as the ‘House of the Benches’, it is tucked away on…
The Greeks called them Scythians, the Assyrians and Achaemenid Persians called them Saka. We know them only through their lavish funeral remains.…
The 6th century BC temple on the Greek island Despotiko is not what you might expect: the shrine boasts an enormous dining…