Indo-European people, probably related at the branches Iranian woman and Slavic, the Scythians were fixed tardily (Xe front century J. - C.) compared to the other Indo-Europeans.

Their geographical field corresponds to that of the grassy and wooded steppe of the north of the Black Sea, extending to the east to the Volga, and the south to the Caucasus and the Danube.

The history of the Scythians, which ends with the beginning of the great hunnic and Germanic invasions, extends on more than thirteen centuries, during which these people knew to develop an original civilization, in contact with the influences of the steppe, Hellenism and the East.