The vast fortified settlement of Kamenka on the Dnieper River, settled since the end of the fifth century BCE, has become the center of the Scythian kingdom.
A sovereign whose authority is transmitted to his son heads the Royal Scyths, rulers of the southern Russian and Crimean territories.
Eventually, the royal family had intermarried with Greeks, around the time of Herodotus.
The ninety-year-old ruler Ateas is killed while fighting Philip in 339.
