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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...

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...

Opinion | Yes, Secretary Pompeo, Americans Should Care About Ukraine - The New York Times Ukraine is defending itself and the West against Russian attack....

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...

The picture of Russian manners varies little with reference to the prince or the peasant. The first nobleman in the empire, when dismissed by...

"The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter ...” which translates...

That would explain the letter "Z" his troops use as a mark. Ukraine wishes Putin to repeat the destiry of Zorg and get blown...

New Mexico Museum of Space History: "Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk (1897-1942). Born as Aleksandr Shargei, he took a new name to avoid persecution during the...

The Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) (at the time called in English the Siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The...

Per Wikipedia, the term Iran was first attested in a 3rd-century A.D. inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam. The inscription where the term Iran is mentioned for...

"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...

M. P. Kuchera (1922-1999) was a Ukrainian archaeologist of Czech origin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, and Leading...

Near the end of the 17th century, Ukrainian Cossacks had a Hetman whose name would be known all over Europe and later on around...

"We have irrefutable evidence that at least the sword hilts were made in Rus cities. Regarding the peculiar hilts of the swords from...