Editing Cimmerians (section)

====Modern====
Basing themselves on the location of the Cimmerians in the {{Transliteration|en|Odyssey}} as living on the western shore of the Oceanus, some earlier modern interpretations tried to locate them in the far north of Europe, such as in [[British Isles|Britain]] and [[Jutland]].{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=73}}

In the 18th to 20th centuries, the [[Scientific racism|racialist]] [[British Israelism|British Israelist]] movement developed a [[pseudohistory]] according to which, after population of the historical [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|kingdom of Israel]] had been deported by the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 721 BC and became the [[Ten Lost Tribes]], they fled north to the region near Sinope, from where they migrated into East and Central Europe and became the Scythians and Cimmerians, who themselves moved to north-west Europe and became the supposed ancestors of the [[White people|white]] [[Protestantism|Protestant]] peoples of North Europe, with the {{Transliteration|cy|Cymry}} being the supposed descendants of those among them who maintained their Cimmerian identity. Being an [[Antisemitism in Christianity|antisemitic]] movement, British Israelists claim to be the most authentic heirs of the ancient Israelites while rejecting Jews as being "contaminated" through intermarriage with [[Edom]]ites; or, they adhere to the antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming that Jews [[Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry|descend from the Khazars]].{{sfn|Cottrell-Boyce|2021}}{{sfn|Parfitt|2003|p=54}} According to the scholar [[Tudor Parfitt]], the proof cited by adherents of British Israelism is "of a feeble composition even by the low standards of the genre."{{sfn|Parfitt|2003|p=61}}

Research in the late 20th century AD eventually concluded that the various "Cimmerian" toponymies from the Pontic Steppe were invented during the 6th century BC, that is when the Pontic Steppe was under Scythian rule, long after the historical Cimmerians had disappeared.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=85}}

=====In popular culture=====
The character of [[Conan the Barbarian]], created by [[Robert E. Howard]] in a series of fantasy stories published in [[Weird Tales|{{Transliteration|en|Weird Tales}}]] from 1932, is canonically a Cimmerian: in Howard's fictional [[Hyborian Age]], the Cimmerians are a pre-Celtic people who were the ancestors of the Irish and Scots ([[Gaels]]). Moreover, a miscegenation of Cimmerians and Turanians was given as the origin of the Scyths.

[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay|{{Transliteration|en|The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay}}]], a novel by [[Michael Chabon]], includes a chapter describing the (fictional) oldest book in the world, {{Transliteration|en|The Book of Lo}}, created by ancient Cimmerians.

[[Isaac Asimov]] attempted to trace various place names to Cimmerian origins. He suggested that {{Transliteration|la|Cimmerium}} gave rise to the [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] [[Toponymy|toponym]] [[Stary Krym|{{Transliteration|crh|Qırım}}]], which in turn gave rise to the [[name of Crimea|name {{Transliteration|en|Crimea}}]].{{sfn|Asimov|1991|p=50}} The derivation of the name of Crimea from that of the Cimmerians is however no longer accepted, and it is now thought to have originated from the [[Crimean Tatar language|Crimean Tatar]] word {{Transliteration|crh|qırım}}, which means "fortress."{{sfn|Sulimirski|Taylor|1991|p=558}}

[[Manau (band)|Manau]]'s song [[La Tribu de Dana|{{Transliteration|fr|La Tribu de Dana}}]] recounts an imaginary battle between Celts and enemies identified by the narrator as Cimmerians.