Scythian Art

[Queequeg]

Thought this was fascinating.  Really unique style. 

http://www.pitt.edu/~haskins/

[Admiral Yi]

Hey Squeelus, do you know the origin of the word dragoman?

[Queequeg]

Hey Squeelus, do you know the origin of the word dragoman?

Wikipedia says Akkadian through Arabic.  I'd trust it, as it has a consonantal root. 

[jimmy olsen]

National Geographic had a great article on the Scythians a while back. Lots of great gold art.

[jimmy olsen]

And here's a link.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0306/feature7/index.html

EDIT: Hmm...it doesn't seem to have the images posted.

[Warspite]

Is it me, or does this thready embody the essence of Spellus in its purest form?

[The Larch]

Is it me, or does this thready embody the essence of Spellus in its purest form?

The opening is too short, lacks rambling and obscure references nobody will understand.

[Ed Anger]

Is it me, or does this thready embody the essence of Spellus in its purest form?

The opening is too short, lacks rambling and obscure references nobody will understand.

Or weird love of dead societies.

[Eddie Teach]

The opening is too short, lacks rambling and obscure references nobody will understand.

Needs more frothing as well.

[Caliga]

I think I'll have a heart attack the day Spellus starts a thread to tell us how much he admires chili dogs or Penthouse Letters or something remotely normal.

[KRonn]

Good stuff, thanks for the link Spellus! And I'd rather discussion of this stuff, even though I can't add much. I was thinking though, of how much warfare and troubles all these civilizations went through, and how much that affected them, changed things, even snuffed out some civs. But then, that's still going on and in fact the last century was quite huge display of war and turmoil.