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The Scythians under King Madyes, unchecked by …
Years: 633BCE - 622BCE
The Scythians under King Madyes, unchecked by the diminished Assyrian military, in 626 ravage Syria and Palestine according to Herodotus, seemingly being able to ride unopposed through the empires of the Near East as far as Egypt.
The Scythians pass through Ashkelon after Pharaoh Psamtik I pays a heavy tribute to prevent invasion.
Ashkelon's temple of Venus according to Herodotus is the oldest of its kind, imitated even in Cyprus, and he mentions that this temple was pillaged by marauding Scythians during the time of their sway over the Medes from 653 to 625 BCE.
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- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Medes
- Assyrian people
- Scythians, or Sakas
- Assyria, (New) Kingdom of (Neo-Assyrian Empire)
- Egypt (Ancient), Late Period of
- Medes, Kingdom of the
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Assyrian Wars of c. 745-609 BCE
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Years: 633BCE - 622BCE
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Medes
- Assyrian people
- Scythians, or Sakas
- Assyria, (New) Kingdom of (Neo-Assyrian Empire)
- Egypt (Ancient), Late Period of
- Medes, Kingdom of the
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Assyrian Wars of c. 745-609 BCE
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions