“During the quarter century since The Metropolitan Museum of Art's last exhibition of steppe art (From the Lands of the Scythians), spectacular discoveries, particularly in the East-such as the frozen grave of Ak-Alakh, in the Gorno-Altai Autonomous District near the Russian-Chinese border, and the mummies of Urumqi, in the Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China-have enriched, if not completely redrawn, scholars' picture of the nomads who dominated the steppes from Siberia to the Black Sea, and even farther west, during the first millennium B. C.”