Kazakh archaeologists have excavated a thirteen-foot-tall burial mound that they claim once held the remains of a prominent member of one of the Saka tribes. They also say that these nomadic Iranian people were related to the Scythians and dominated the steppes in present-day Kazakhstan and southern Siberia during the first millennium B.C. The seven Islamic graves which this archaeological team found, they say, these graves were oriented towards Mecca.
How archaeologists are throwing statements on ancient world without reading and referring to ancient texts which have preserved facts on ancient Saka tribe, Scythians, and ancient Mecca is most painful. Iranian people never represent either the Saka tribes or the Scythians.
Saka tribes were inhabitants of Saka island; they were worshippers of Saka tree also. Both Ptolemy and the Periplus have identified their settlements in their respective maps.
Similarly, Scythians are best represented by the Skanda puranas of Indian puranic tradition. They were mostly followers of the God Skanda, or the biblical Chemosh, same as Kumar of Indian puranas. Places near Mt Gerrim also identify their land..
Iranian people, as the name suggests, were worshippers of God Aruna, or the Sun; their settlement was near the City of Sun.