The decadent and outlandish nobility known as the Polish Sarmatians are often said to have brought down the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through their mistakes and hubris. The novelist Wojciech ...

Tracing Polish ancestry back to the ancient Sarmatians was a prevalent myth that influenced politics, arts and culture from the 16th century onwards. But what was everyday life like during the ...

Related: 2,000-year-old gold jewelry from mysterious culture discovered in Kazakhstan The nomadic Sarmatians dominated the steppe between Eastern Europe and Central Asia from about the fifth ...