Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine

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https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

Richest Scythian Female Burial in Ukraine: Priestess-Queen in Griffins Headdress with...

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https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska

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“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...

The Rus are Slavs, wrote Ibn Khordadbeh before 860 AD. What...

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“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

55th Anniversary of the Scythian Gold Pectoral discovery! [June 21, 1971]

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https://youtu.be/A7szL7wiBuY Discovery On June 21, 1971, while working inside the Scythian Kurgan, the head of the expedition, Borys Mozolevsky, began clearing the dromos, where a large...

Wine Preferences of Royal Scythians: Story of nearly 500 Greek Amphoras...

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https://youtu.be/wATY2fhj5Zc During the 1855 excavations of the Central Tomb of Alexandropol Kurgan, the archaeologists discovered a niche in the western wall that was filled with...

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Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian prominent sculptor inspired by Scythian Art

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M. Shkandrij in his 'Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine' published in Boston in 2019, wrote that Alexander Archipenko "called for a renewal of “ancient polychromy which is far...

The US likely owes Ukraine $1 Trillion for weapons stripped 30...

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"If  @POTUS charges Ukraine to pay back aid, we can remind him of the nukes and other weapons stripped off in the 90th by the...

History of Ukraine-made most powerful Intercontinental Ballistic Missile SS-18 Satan (R-36):...

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"If anything, the military purpose of Chernobyl-2 is a reminder that the purpose of the Chernobyl power station was never entirely civilian, either. While...

Bob Dylan’s Family Ties to Odessa, Ukraine

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Cossack Country-Ukraine as seen by Syrian chronicler Paul of Aleppo in...

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Paul of Aleppo (1627 - 1669) was a Syrian archdeacon, traveler, and writer. He accompanied his father, Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch, on a journey from Aleppo...

Taiho, arguably the greatest Sumo wresler of all time, was of...

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Catherine II (‘the Great’) employed utmost artifice to keep secret the...

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Kyiv Elite Warrior on 12th-century Fresco from St. Cyril’s Church: Possibly...

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The Crimean War of 1854: Russia’s backwardness exposed, War gamble ends...

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