'''Skytherne''' ('''skyterne''') var enet Iransk nomadisk flokfolk,<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ti8KAQAAIAAJ&q=iranian+Scythians&dq=iranian+Scythians&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pHjJUKf-DYiDhQfzroGgDw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg Four old Iranian ethnic names:Scythian, Skudra, Sogdian, Saka, Volumes 3369-3371]</ref><ref>[http://www.livius.org/sao-sd/scythians/scythians.html livius.org]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5283320.stm Scythian mummy shown in Germany, BBC News ]</ref><ref>[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Scythia Scythian, member of a nomadic people originally of Iranian people who migrated from Central Asia to southern Russia in the 8th and 7th centuries BC - The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition - Micropaedia on "Scythian", 10:576]</ref> der i [[Antikken|oldtiden]] levede på [[slette]]rne nord for [[Sortehavet]] og [[Det kaspiske Hav]]. De er del af et større kulturelt og sprogligt kontinuum, der har fostret andre rytterfolk som [[sarmater]]ne og [[alaner]]ne. Da skyternes indflydelse var på det højeste, dominerede de stepperne til [[Kina]].
