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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...
Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article
The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...
Scythian Pegasus: Chertomlyk Silver Vase
Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...
Scythian Language: Proto-Indo-European, NOT Iranian
Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...
Scythian Supreme Goddess Tabiti: The only Indo-Aryan female Fire Deity
Herodotus According to Greek historian Herodotus, the Scythian religion centered on seven divinities. He described them in the following way: The only gods the Scythians try...
Scythian Cavalry Heavy Armor: What museum recreation revealed
Gladkivshchina Kurgan #2 In 1982, researchers explored a burial site unique in its composition and state of preservation near the village of Gladkovshchina in central...
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Belgorod was part of Ukraine 100 years ago. It was built...
In 1919, Belgorod proclaimed itself a part of Ukraine and used Ukrainian as official language for its documents. Ethnically, it was a Rus-Ukrainian city...
Ukrainian who created the best jet engines in the world: Arkhyp...
In 1926, a young man from the Kyiv region entered Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The man's first name was Arkhyp, and his last name was...
Voltaire described the effect of Muscovite Orthodox religion: Encouragement to Wickedness
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The ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ story describes Kyiv under Moscow’s occupation
The 'Fiddler on the Roof' can help one to get a sense of what it was like to live in the Pale of Settlement,...
10th-century Easter Egg from Kyiv Rus discovered in Sweden
"Glazed ceramic Resurrection egg. The egg is made of glazed fired clay. It varies in colour from bright chocolate brown to dark green. The...
Igor Sikorsky: ‘My family is of Ukrainian origin’. Official document
When one opens Igor Sikorsky's Wikipedia page, in the "Early Life" paragraph one can read the following sentence: "When questioned regarding his roots, he would...
Taiho, arguably the greatest Sumo wresler of all time, was of...
According to Wikipedia, Taihō Kōki - (Іва́н Бори́шко, Ivan Boryshko; May 29, 1940 – January 19, 2013) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the...
Muscovy-Russia paid tribute to Crimean Khans until the Treaty of Constantinople...
The Treaty of Constantinople was concluded on 13 July 1700. The Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire agreed on a truce set to expire...
USA got an opportunity to purchase Alaska only because of Russia’s...
Alaska Purchase Wikipedia page tells that "having faced a catastrophic defeat in the Crimean War, Moscow began exploring the possibility of selling the state's Alaskan...