 Conan is mentioned to be a Cimmerian. The Cimmerians were a people  who inhabited lands north of the Black and Caspian Seas, in modern  day Ukraine and southern Russia, in approximately 8th century to 9th  century B.C. (give or take a few centuries. They were mentioned in  the writings of Homer and Herodotus, who considered them barbarians  who lived on the edge of the known world. Their territory were the  lands of "Gomer" in the Old Testament. Herodotus writes that the  Cimmerians were later displaced by the Scythians, horse