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Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

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...

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...

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

PyoTchaikovsky wrote more than 30 compositions while in Ukraine, because - "I found a feeling of peace in my soul, which I couldn't find...

According to Wikipedia, Taihō Kōki - (Іва́н Бори́шко, Ivan Boryshko; May 29, 1940 – January 19, 2013) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the...

Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...

Cleanliness as a noble trait in Ukrianians has been observed by many travellers - Edward Clark and John Steinbeck can be mentioned among many...

Nature of some of the Russian wars starting from Ivan IV 'the Terrible' >

The Drevnost' Malorossiiskogo Yazyka was published in 1880 in Odesa. It is available in the original language at Archive.org (In case the link...

Harvard Professor Richard Pipes starts a new chapter of his book "Russia Under the Old Regime" with the following quote of Sigismund Herberstein, a...

The sheath was first described for international audience in the "Scythians and Greeks" book by E. Minns published in 1913. Below is a drawing...

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War...

It is UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding List. https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/cossacks-songs-of-dnipropetrovsk-region-01194

New perspective on Volodymir's ancestry and why he chose to be baptized in one of the most dangerous places for him, - Tauric Chersonesus...

The hat was discovered in 1877 by archaeologist Samokvasov in the same barrow as the shirt mentioned in the previous article. The hat is...