Les tertres funéraires d’Histria Recherches Archeologiques dans la Necropole Tumulaire

Orient and orientalizing in early celtic art

“…In Herodotus's account of the Balkans at the end of the 6th century (perhaps in part derived from Hekataios) there were Scythians north of the Danube and Getae south of it. But near Histria, just south of the Danube, a cemetery of cremations under barrows has been excavated, along with large numbers of unburnt bodies of persons slaughtered kneeling, as well as muddled-up remains of horses (Alexandrescu, 1959). This is typical of the confusion of customs and populations.…”