Re: Cimmerians

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> >(TORSTEN) The Cimmerians held out in Tauris, on the
> Cimmerian
> > Bosporus, Kerch.
>
> ******GK: By the time of Herodotus, the Cimmerians
> were just a memory. All that remained were a few
> toponyms.******
> >
> >
>

No. The Tauri were Cimmerians and remained on the Crimea until 200
BCE.

http://www.hostkingdom.net/crimea.html
http://skiathos.physics.auth.gr/IDAACS/tourist_history.htm

Torsten