The Scythian domination of Western Asia has for centuries been known from Herodotus' mention, but other evidence for it emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Assyrian records and letters mentioning the Ashguzai, as the Assyrians called the Scythians, were revealed in the nineteenth century when the geography and the ethnic names of the Assyrians' world began to be properly understood from the decipherment of cuneiform texts. The same increase of knowledge began to give background and point to Hebrew prophecies, as in Jeremiah and Ezekiel; these described perils and threatening movement. Archaeology in the twentieth century has revealed some Scythian objects, or objects showing the influence of Scythian metalwork, in Western Asia, and objects discovered somewhat earlier in Scythian tombs north of the Caucasus can now be seen to be Scythian plunder from the Near East. More details should be filled in as more cuneiform texts and more Scythian objects come to light in Mesopotamia and north-western Iran.
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