Since I have had quite a bit of response regarding the Scythian eagles shown on the Lapidary Digest web site, I have compiled a list of important references that can be used for exploring this rich source for ideas. These and papers listed in the bibliographies included therein will yield an abundance of ideas. RKP

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Ashmolean Museum, Vickers, M. J., 1979. Scythian treasures in Oxford. by Michael Vickers. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 56 p.

Basilov, V. N., Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Denver Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), 1989. Nomads of Eurasia/ edited by Vladimir N. Basilov; translation by Mary Fleming Zirin; photography by Dana Levy and Joel Sackett, 1989. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, 191 p.

British Museum, 1978. Frozen tombs: the culture and art of the ancient tribes of Siberia. British Museum Publications, London, 102 p.

Minns, E. H., 1913. Scythians and Greeks; a survey of ancient history and archaeology on the north coast of the Euxine from the Danube to the Caucasus. Cambridge University Press, 720 p.

Rice, T. T., 1957. The Scythians. Thames and Hudson, London, 255 p.

Rolle, R., 1989. The world of the Scythians; translated by F. G. Walls from the German Die Weld der Skythen. University of California Press, Berkeley, 141 p.

Vickers, M. J., 1979. Scythian treasures in Oxford

Rostovzeff, M. I., 1922. Iranians & Greeks in south Russia. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 260 p.

Rudenko, S. I., 1970. Frozen tombs of Siberia; the Pazyryk burials of Iron Age horsemen, by Sergei I. Rudenko., Translated with a preface by M. W. Thompson. 1st english Edition, with authorâs revisions. University of California Press, Berkeley, 340 p.

Sulimirski, T., 1970. The Sarmatians. Praeger, New York, 1970, 267 p.