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Music
Just as there are no extant examples of Scythian writing, neither are there are surviving melodies or other musical examples.
That said, in the Pazyryk burials, a harp and a drum have been found (Rudenko, 1970).
In another Altai burial, a mouth harp/jaw harp was found and dated to between the 3rd c. BCE and the 6th c. CE–making it less “Scythian” and more “Hunnic” in its likely provenance (Borodovsky, 2018).
References
Borodovsky, A.P. (2018). Bone mouth harps and their blanks of the Hunno-Sarmatian Period from northern Altai. Archaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology of Eurasia, 23, pp. 279-283.
Rudenko, S.I. (1970). Frozen tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk burials of iron-age horsemen. UC Press. Available to borrow/read digitally at archive.org.