TIL that in ancient Scythian society, when a king died, his servants, cooks, and horses were buried with him, reflecting beliefs about service in the afterlife and the brutal reality of social hierarchies, where a king’s death could lead to the death of many innocent individuals.
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Scythian | People, History, & Facts | Britannica
Scythian, member of a nomadic people, originally of Iranian stock, known from as early as the 9th century BCE who migrated westward from Central Asia to southern Russia and Ukraine in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE.Encyclopedia Britannica
