recently, elena fialko's book about the scythian amazons was published, she observed that a large numberwomen had to take up arms. in fact, and in popular culture, the scythians are known, thanks to their gold jewelry, pectoralis, here, in particular, pectorals, where did this tradition of burying in mounds, building them, putting not only decorations, but also sacrifices, originated. the world, a respected scythian, well already at the level of the king, or a relative of the king, was accompanied, from seven to 11 people accompanied him, that is, a person died, and he, so to speak, in order to provide for him in the afterlife in addition to a large number cattle that went for food, in addition to a large number of horses, on the feedlot, of course, there were several cauldrons with various foods left, amph. with wine to ten to two dozen, and he was buried with his horses, but in order to send him to the burial chamber, he was hit on the head with a sharp ax, well, a cleaver, that means a special ax, a small scabbard, in other cases , probably just somewhere with the help of hands or str