After defeating the Amazons in the battle on the River Fermodonte, the Hellenic warriors on three ships, together with the captives, sailed to their homeland. But in the sea, the Amazons killed their winners, and since the warriors did not know the art of navigation, the ships became uncontrollable, and the winds and currents threw them onto the coast of Lake Meoti, where free Scythians lived. And from the union of the Amazons and Scythians, powerful tribes of Savromats appeared, ruled by female warriors.

Reports of ancient authors about Savromats, or Sarmatians, ceased to be only a historical legend only at the end of the 19th century, when Russian archaeologists in barrows located in those lands where ancient authors placed the tribes of the sons of the Amazons, discovered female burials with military weapons.

Apparently, the first Sarmatian tribes were formed approximately in the VIII — VII centuries BC in the steppes east of the Don in the Volga region and the southern Urals. Then the Sarmatians began to penetrate into the steppes of the Black Sea region, where the Scythians reigned supreme. And in the end, the Sarmatians, as the ancient Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily writes, “devastated a large part of Scythia and exterminated the defeated people without exception, turned most of Scythia into a desert.”

Near Nizhnegorsk there has long been a huge eight meters high and eighty meters diameter Nogaychinsky barrow. Among the locals about him have long been legends about the countless treasures hidden in it, the white horse, sometimes appearing at night. The main find was the unique burial of the ancient graves of a woman.

There is a gold brooch on the buried chest, bracelets on the arms and legs. Hands rested in silver bowls. Bronze mirror. Traces of a wooden box, in which lay golden rings, incense bottles. Most of the items found are decorated with precious stones – emerald, pomegranate, chrysolite, citrine, jasper, sapphire, amber, cornelian, agate.

Such a unique mound of wealth and size could not be erected above the burial of an ordinary woman. Everything – both the hryvnia and the head decoration (symbols of high dignity), and the position of the hands in silver vessels, as if emphasizing the nobility of the buried, and, finally, the very abundance of jewelry made of gold and precious stones with a total weight of over two kilograms – suggests we have before us the burial of a queen or priestess who lived somewhere within the end of the second century BC – the first century of our era.

But one curious and intriguing coincidence with written sources attracts attention. The ancient writer Polian, who lived in the II century BC, has such a story.

“…The king of the Sarmatians of Midossak had a wife named Amaga — a clever and warlike woman. Midossak himself spent all his time in riot and drunkenness, and Amaga herself repaired judgment and reprisals, repelling enemies’ raids. Her fame spread throughout Scythia.”

“…At first, Amaga sent an order to the Scythian king to stop their raids, but when he did not obey, she chose 120 people, strong in body and soul, gave each of three horses, and, having flown 1200 stages (190-220 kilometers) with them, suddenly appeared To the king’s court and interrupted all the guards who stood at the gate. The Scythians were dismayed by surprise and imagined that the attackers were not so much as they saw, but much more. Amaga, having burst into the palace with the detachment, killed the king and relatives and friends with him.”

According to some researchers, these events took place in 165-145 years BC. It was at this time that “our” barrow was poured – the richest of all Sarmatian kurgans uncovered on the territory of the Northern Black Sea region. And on the same land, where the rules of Queen Amaga.