The book tells the story of one of the most mysterious peoples of the past - the Scythians, and how the powerful ethnic group of the ancestors of the steppe and Slavic peoples was born in grandiose clashes of civilizations. Who are they, where did they come from and where did they disappear to? Why did the fierce Huns mortally frighten the Europeans, and what peoples trace their ancestry to them? Why did the blond German Goths, at the time of their power, so persistently strive for the shores of the Black Sea? You will learn about many secrets of the ancestral home of fantastic monsters - dragons and griffins, you will get acquainted with the Amazons, cannibals and Hyperboreans.