Episode 8: Kimmerians: Through the Caucasus

Welcome back to the Nomads and Empires podcast, episode 8. The story above is one of the only pieces of information we know about the Kimmerians, and it is a tragic experience that also heralds many motifs we’ll see across steppe history. The emergence of an eastern invader displacing groups on the western steppes is one that we’ll see throughout history, and this may be the first recorded instance of such an event. However, before we dive further into that, we need to start off with a few