Editing Scythians (section)

====Cimmerians====
The Late Babylonian scribes of the Achaemenid Empire used the name "Cimmerians" to designate all the nomad peoples of the steppe, including the Scythians and Saka.{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=94}}{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=100}}{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=93}}

However, while the Cimmerians were an Iranic people<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{harvnb|Diakonoff|1985|p=51}}|{{harvnb|Harmatta|1996|p=1996}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1999a|p=517}}|{{harvnb|Olbrycht|2000a|pp=92–93}}|{{harvnb|Bouzek|2001|pp=43–44}}}}</ref> sharing a common language, origins and culture with the Scythians{{sfn|Melyukova|1990|p=98}} and are archaeologically indistinguishable from the Scythians, all sources contemporary to their activities clearly distinguished the Cimmerians and the Scythians as being two separate political entities.{{sfn|Adalı|2017|p=61}}

[[File:Herodotos Met 91.8.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|The 5th-century BC [[Greeks|Greek]] historian [[Herodotus|Herodotus of Halicarnassus]] is the most important literary source on the origins of the Scythians]]