ATEAS, KING OF THE PONTIC SCYTHIANS, who was defeated in battle by Philip II of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great, in 339 BC. This reconstruction is based on a Scythian stone idol or kurgan stele that represents a warrior in a leather armour with shoulder plates, reinforced with iron scales and overlapping iron bands rivetted to leather sleeves (for which there are matching archaeological finds near Kyiv). The armour in the stone idol is decorated with golden appliques in the form of...