First Sentence

"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."