This strategic mobility — the ability of a mounted nomadic people to simply move faster than a conventional army could follow — was a fundamental feature of steppe nomad military culture.

The Pazyryk possessed the same capability.

Herodotus described Scythian burial practices in considerable detail.

He wrote of elaborate kurgans, of the sacrifice of horses and servants to accompany the dead chief, of elaborate golden grave goods.

The archaeological record of the Scythian and Pazyryk kurgans has substantially corroborated Herodotus on the general features of these practices — not perfectly, and with significant differences in detail, but the broad strokes match.

He also described the cannabis sweat bath practice — which the archaeological evidence has confirmed at multiple sites.