The expansion of the Iranian peoples in first centuries 1st millennium BCE coincides with creation and further development cavalry warfare western Eurasia, as well pastoral nomadic life-style which dominated Great Steppe for millennia to come. mounted warriors replaced light chariots Bronze Age battlefields required perfect horsemanship however application recurved, double reflex. composite bow...

The armour of the personage depicted on capital from Bisotun, exhibited in Ṭāq-e Bostān, has been an object research already several times with no definite setting typology arms and allocation historical trends. article attempts to fill this gap. defines helmet as lamellar/laminar type splints ornately incised edges central splint over personage’s nose. top dome is crowned by decorative, solid ...

Among the objects excavated in 1978 at site of Tillya Tepe (Northern Afghanistan) by Soviet-Afghan archaeological expedition led Victor I. Sarianidi, twin golden clasps from Burial III attract special and instant attention any military historian or a researcher ancient arms armour. The identity personage(-s) on has quite rarely been studied. Scholars are usually satisfied with generic term “war...