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Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows
Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
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Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska
“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...
Scythian Colored Ornament Patterns on Leather from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan
The man in the central grave of Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan had a cuirass on him. The cuirass pauldrons (shoulder pads) had pieces of thick...
The Sea Peoples: Birds Followers?
In that short passage in the Iliad about the cranes flying from winter plains to the pigmies in the south there is so much...
Zoroastrian Fire Worship and Purification of Metals: How and Where the...
In her PhD dissertation 'Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origin' presented at the University of London (available at Academia.edu), Anna Marie...
Vitaly Klitschko inducted in the Boxing Hall of Fame
"Klitschko was elected to the Hall of Fame in December, three years after he decided to re-enter politics in his native Ukraine. Also...
Vettersfelde Gold Fish Plaque: Ties to Cyzicus and Royal Scythians
Denis Topal of the National Archaeology And History Museum Of Moldova: "The overall shape of the ‘fish’ looks like a member of the genus...
History as a Weapon in Russia’s War on Ukraine, – Atlantic...
"We learn that “the Russians” suffered twenty-seven million losses before taking Berlin. Meanwhile, there is scant reference to the fact Ukraine saw far more of...
Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan) as seen by John Steinbeck after WW2,...
“We tried to read a little of the plane, and promptly went to sleep. And when we were awakened, we were over the flat...
Moscow myth about “great Kursk tank battle” exposed
"The battle of Prokhorovka was steeped in Soviet legend (and myth) for many decades. This remained the case until post-Soviet era research revealed the...
‘Neptune’ missile strike shows strength of Ukraine’s homegrown weapons – Washington...
Soon after Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, a Ukrainian defense firm used an arms show in Kyiv to unveil its latest project:...
Curious Horse Burials in Tovsta Mogyla Kyrgan: ‘Yin-Yang’ pattern?
As a rule, the higher the kurgan, the more horses were buried in it. From this perspective, although almost 9 meters tall Tovsta Mogyla...
Hetman Mazeppa’s Legendary Sabre mentioned by Lord Byron: stolen by Moscow,...
This done, Mazeppa spread his cloak, And laid his lance beneath his oak, Felt if his arms in order good The long day's march had well withstood...