Argippaeans
The Argippaeans or Argippaei are a people mentioned by Herodotus in his The Histories. They were cited to be living north of the Scythians, and much of the scholarship points to them being a tribe near the Ural Mountains. There are scholars who believe that Herodotus could be talking about the Mongolians based on their physical description as well as their culture.[1]
Herodotus only relied on secondary sources for his account, drawing from descriptions of Greeks and Scythians such as the detail about the Argippaeans as bald people.[2] They were said to have settled in a land that is flat and deep-soiled. This was believed to be in the outliers of the Altai mountains while the T'ien Shan lies on the other side.[3] just before, an impenetrable barrier of mountains called eremos.[2]
In Herodotus
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