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:Yes, we should have the original Latin. [[User:Johnbod|Johnbod]] ([[User talk:Johnbod|talk]]) 02:39, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

::[[:wikisource:la:Naturalis_Historia/Liber_VI#XXIV]] (in paragraph 88). To be fair the translation cited in the article is [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D24 here], and it does read "flaxen-haired". Whether that is the only possible translation of the Latin is another question (we all know translation is, at best, an inexact science, especially when we're two millenia removed from the context of the original writer. [[User:RandomCanadian|RandomCanadian]] ([[User talk:RandomCanadian|talk]] / [[Special:Contributions/RandomCanadian|contribs]]) 03:35, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

== Turkic ==

The culture of the Scythians is ancient Turk culture. Burial mounds were used by the Scythians and Turks. The Scythian dna also indicates that they belonged to a Turanid race . [[User:AzərbaycanTürküAze|AzərbaycanTürküAze]] ([[User talk:AzərbaycanTürküAze|talk]]) 07:30, 18 April 2021 (UTC)