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Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st. 160 pages, illustrations (33 color); 29 cm. Exhibition held in 1975 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. *** "This book chronicles the beautiful exhibit of Scythian and Sarmatian treasures that travelled to New York and to L.A. in 1975. The Scythians and Sarmatians were the original peoples who inspired the Greek legends of the centaurs and the Amazons -- the mounted Scythian warriors seeming to be one with their horses, and the female warriors of the Sarmatians stood out so much that the legend has discarded the men of the Sarmatian tribe. Both groups lived in the area bordered by the Dneipr and Ural Rivers to the east and west respectively, and by the Black Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Caspian Sea to the south." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction, by Ann Farkas; Maps; Early cultures of the lands of the Scythians; Excavations and discoveries in Scythian lands, by adapted from a Russian text by Boris Piotrovsky; Color plates; Catalogue; Herodotus: on the Scythians; The dawn of chivalry, by Helmut Nickel; The Vettersfelde find, by Dietrich von Bothmer; "The Maikop treasure", by Prudence Oliver Harper. Size: 4to. Collectible.…