Graves of Rich, Powerful Women Found in Lost City of Herodotus

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.haaretz.com/hblocked?returnTo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Farchaeology%2Fgraves-of-rich-powerful-women-found-in-lost-city-of-herodotus-1.10421477

for perusal

[DBS]

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/graves-of-rich-powerful-women-found-in-lost-city-of-herodotus-1.10421477

(Since your URL includes the ad-blocker which mightily upsets Haarestz...)

Funnily enough, just finished last night Barry Cunliffe's Scythians.  As he wisely observes, it is over-reaching the evidence to conclude that Bilsk definitely equals Gelonus, but rather indicates that Gelonus probably existed, since Bilsk demonstrates that large settlements akin to Gelonus were used by the Pontic Scythians, and thus it was not a figment of Herodotos' (or his informants') imagination.  Marks, however, lost by the journalist for not mentioning the skull-cup factory found there for added "human interest" in her story 

[Imperial Dave]

thanks David