An akinak Scythian sword

Museum of Prokhorovskoe Pole
Russia

The akinak is an iron sword that the Scythians used in the second half of the 1st millennium BC. Besides the Scythians, Akinaks were also used by the Persians, Saka, Argippaeans, and Massagetae.

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