Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows

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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...

Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in the 1669 issue of The London...

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The London Gazette - Wikipedia is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and...

‘Scythian Square’ of Herodotus: Borders of Scythia 2500 years ago

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8T0Uowrltw When one searches for the boundaries of Scythia, one sees many different maps with boundaries stretching all the way to India and Afghanistan. While...

Ukrainian Village Named The Hottest in the U.S. by the Redfin

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It is "tranquil", - quotes the Chicagoist.com. "Just as typical Ukrainian spirit" - we would add

Ukraine Paid the Bill of WW2

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Saturday Evening Post on January 27, 1945 Edgar Snow UKRAINE PAYS THE BILL "After an exhaustive personal survey, a Post editor says Ukraine has suffered more from...

Old Scythia of Herodotus. Where was it? How old could it...

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"Old Scythia starts from the Ister and continues, facing the south and south wind, up to the city called Kerkinitis. From there, extending...

Origin of Horseback Riding Was in Ukraine, – Scientific American

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The article 'The Origin of Horseback Riding' was published in The Scientific American Magazine's 1991 December issue. It was the time when Ukraine was...

Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: Headdress

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As mentioned earlier, a Scythian woman and a child were buried in the side vault of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan. In the same chamber...

Banksy’s “Trolley hunters” appears prophetic after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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Created in 2006, the painting was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021 for $6 698 400.

‘Keeping Pledge to Hitler’: How Moscow allied with Nazis and started...

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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:...

Could Trypillian/Ukrainian ‘Yin-Yang’ be related to Megalithic stone circles in Britain?

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From around 1933 to 1977, Professor of Engineering at Oxford Alexander Thom spent most of his weekends and holidays surveying megalithic sites in Britain....

“Tunnel of Love” originally was used to conceal the transport of...

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In the centuries-old city of Klevan, Ukraine, a railroad track cuts through the trees shaping a tunnel, appropriately named the Tunnel of Love...