(Carole Raddato / Wikicommons) The were people who were riding horses without saddles (first used by the Scythians) or stirrups, which would not arrive until the Chinese invented them early in the 4th ...
One such story states that the Scots are descendants of the ancient Scythians who resided in what is now Romania and Bulgaria. Here, it is said that Andrew the Apostle converted the early Scots to ...
A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...