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Who has not claimed the proud title of "descendants of those very Scythians"! With what passion do people search for great ancestors in long-gone eras! And it is rarely justified. And even more rarely does it have any relation to what has actually been preserved in the people's memory, and not constructed by the national intelligentsia for one reason or another. So where did the mighty Scythians go, where can we look for their descendants? Does it make sense at all to look for the ancestors of modern ethnic groups among the legendary peoples of ancient and classical history? And what to do if the maximum depth of historical memory is a measly three generations? One of the most prominent classical scholars in Russia, editor-in-chief of the "Bulletin of Ancient History", Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the Department of Comparative Study of Ancient Civilizations at the Institute of General History, Askold Igorevich Ivanchik, talks about the complex problems of ethnic history. Broadcast from 12/15/2015 You can become a subscriber to the Proshloe magazine and support our projects: https://proshloe.com/donate / @proshloejournal https://proshloe.com/ / proshloecom https://vk.com/proshloe_com https://ok.ru/proshloe.com / proshloe.journal https://t.me/proshloejournal 00:00 Introduction 01:22 What is ethnicity? 04:50 Support the project 05:43 Ethnicity of ancient peoples 08:33 Migrations: genetics, linguistics, archeology 13:17 What and how do we know about the Scythians? 21:30 Features of Byzantine historiography 23:33 Where did the Scythians disappear? 31:57 Sarmatians and Alans 36:49 Search for Glorious Ancestors 40:50 Plasticity of Historical Memory: Greece