Ancient Historian Describes The First Steppe Nomads (450 BC) // 'SCALP NAPKINS and SKULL CUPS'

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Extracts taken from The Histories by Herodotus (translated by AD Godley).

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[Raventooth]

This video is a big steppe for your channel.

[volcelraptor]

Herodotus is such a kill joy. First he tells me they got shapeshifting wizards. then he tells me it's bullshit.

[JoeSmith-slbq]

The battles between Scythians and Assyrians must have given a whole other level of brutality to the world.

[dantecaputo]

From now on I’m putting ‘has many scalp napkins’ on my resume.

[gododoof]

Classic Herodotus.

King: I need to figure out how many people are in my lands. I know! Everyone bring me an arrowhead or I'll kill you.
King: Look everyone! I melted down the arrowheads and made a nice bowl.
Scythians: It's lovely chief, so how many did you get?
King: Oh shit I forgot to count them.

[twonumber]

Herodotus has a nice voice. Speaks good English, too.

[joerice]

For a people that didn't have a written language, the symbolic act of creating a large vessel from countless small arrowheads is a fascinating insight into a culture vastly different from ours today. Certainly more poetic than a number written on a piece of paper.

[oljimeagle]

I too judge the best man by his collection of " scalp napkins"

[Chris_seh]

I always remember how Herodotus was like "Ye these dudes are polygamous and love to hotbox smoking weed, also btw they make cloaks of human skins"

[BrettonFerguson]

I would like to hear more of Herodotus's writings, other ancient Greeks too. Especially Aristotle.
I believe Herodotus wrote something about Scythians who were enslaved by the Assyrians, they rose up and fought with the Assyrians.

[patrickking]

I like Herodotus. He’s like, “they say beyond the mountains are men with goats feet who sleep 6 months of the year, but I’m not buying it.”

[moulayismail]

I can't stop watching your videos. I discovered your channel last week and thats the best thing that happened to me thus year. Thank you for this great content

[chris-]

This description makes me grateful to be living in modern times

[nikolamandic]

In Serbian saying "Skita" means when someone walk/live around wast land. When you say "Nemoj da skita okolo" It means "Dont let him wonder around(usually city)"

[VojislavMoranic]

"Why were the ancient Slavs hiding and building cities and villages in swamps and dense forests?"
*Ancient scythian gallops with human skin saddle and scalp napkins while high on marihuana*

[amadeusasimov]

Jeez, I had no idea, Paul the apostle was really being edgy when he mentioned "Scythians".
Those guys were friggin brutal.

[BayouMaccabee]

I absolutely love this channel...always interesting.

[Methodius]

They do look like kind friendly chaps.

[DATA-qtnb]

Great video as always! I really enjoy the "Outsider in a foreign land" accounts, Even if you can tell they have biases from their own culture that we already know a bit about, it can be pretty funny and interesting

[brandonw]

How ever accurate or exaggerated, its simply amazing that the words of Herodotus still survive today.
Not to mention he is the most likable character in Ac odyssey.