These Scythians who had remained in West Asia had been completely assimilated into Median society and state by the mid-6th century BC so that they no longer constituted an independent group and no longer had a separate identity of their own.
these scythians who had remained in west asia had been completely assimilated into median society and state by the mid-6th century bc so that they no longer constituted an independent group and no longer had a separate identity of their own