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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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Ukraine’s Pripyat River Is Like A Work of Art From Space
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Hryhorii Skovoroda: How Russia Tried to Appropriate ‘Ukrainian Socrates’
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Ancient Kyiv Spoke ‘Direct Ancestor’ of the Ukrainian Language, famous linguist...
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A nightmare foretold. Prophetic 1994 speech about current Russia’s aggression by...
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Could Trypillian/Ukrainian ‘Yin-Yang’ be related to Megalithic stone circles in Britain?
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Rus were Sarmatian Roxolani: They fought in Trajan’s Dacian Wars and...
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Elbe Day iconic photo: American Robertson and Ukrainian Silvashko
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Ukraine Can Fly
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Unique Kyiv Rus Jewellery Art of 1,000 AD: Created in Kyiv...
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Ukraine is Not Russia. Crane vs Bear
In the famous movie The Transporter with David Statham it is put in basicly two phrases with deep meanings: "we are different people in heart and mind" (please...