1.   But archeologists excavating graves in the Eurasian steppes are now finding evidence that there may be something to the Amazon legend after all.

2.   Every summer Olsen returns to this spot in the heart of the Eurasian steppe, hoping to prove that her version of history is correct.

3.   Much of the land is flat and treeless, the heart of the Eurasian steppe that reaches from Mongolia to Hungary.

4.   The find is leading to a change in how scholars view the supposed barbaric, nomadic tribes that once roamed the Eurasian steppes.

5.   The fierce nomadic Scythian tribes roamed the Eurasian steppe, from the northern borders of China to the Black Sea region, in the seventh to third centuries B.C.

6.   The technical inventions that stabilized jewelry design originated mostly in the Eurasian steppes and traveled quickly to Europe, Arabia and India in the first century B.C.