2,400 years ago, a Greek historian described how the fearsome Scythians fashioned items from the skins of those they defeated. Science shows that wasn’t hyperbole.
A gold plaque depicting a Scythian on horseback. The traditions of the nomadic tribe that fought Persia in the 5th century B.C. were recorded by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.
According to Herodotus, the Scythians not only drank the blood of the first man they killed and collected the scalps of their enemies: “Many too take off the skin, nails and all, from their dead enemies' right hands, and make coverings for their quivers; the human skin was, as it turned out, thick and shining, the brightest and whitest skin of all, one might say,”Researchers confirmed the quiver claim after analyzing 45 fragments of leather and two fragments of fur from 13 previously...
Gleba says it appears that human skin was only used for the tops of the quivers, while lower parts were made from more “ordinary” leather, like that of cattle or wild animals like foxes. The Greek historian noted the Scythians were renowned for their warrior ways, and that short bows—for both warfare and hunting—were an important feature of Scythian life.
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