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Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

"...Having travelled other five miles, over wild deserts and through extensive forests entirely destitute of water, in the course of which progress we had...

“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 quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...

"The growth in the sector has had some interesting benefits not only for Ukraine, but also for consumers worldwide. The country is now churning out...

Mikhail Gerasimov (1907 - 1970) was a Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based on findings of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and forensic science. He studied the skulls and...

Kyiv not Kiev "In June 2019, at the request of the United States Department of State, the Embassy of Ukraine to the United States, and Ukrainian organizations...

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...

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"(946) Olga returned with the army and defeated the Dereva, but the survivors hid in the city of Iskorosten, and Olga with her army...

Encyclopedia Britannica: Treaty of Paris, (1856), treaty signed on March 30, 1856, in Paris that ended the Crimean War. The treaty was signed between Russia on one side and France,...

https://youtu.be/L-75PvHzT0M The excavations of the grandiose Scythian funeral complex at Alexandropol in Ukraine were described in the previous video on this channel. Alexander Liutsenko, who excavated...

The legend of the Battle of Pygmies with Cranes was very popular in the Bosporan Kingdom in ancient times. As a reminder, the Bosporan...