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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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‘Neptune’ missile strike shows strength of Ukraine’s homegrown weapons – Washington...
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Solomiya Krushelnytska, world-famous Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano of the first half of...
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Scythian Vessel with Hunting Scenes from Solokha Kurgan
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10th-century Rus’ Helmet from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Assyrian prototype?
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Peter I was known as Tzar of Moscovy until he captured...
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Scythian Funeral Cart from Alexandropol Kurgan
During the summer of 1856, A.E. Liutsenko reported finding the remains of a Scythian funeral cart in the kurgan. Considering its closeness to the...
Moscow occupied its part of Poland according to Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact under...
"The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war... The Red Army, which vastly outnumbered the...
Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’
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Ukraine successfully conducts space engine hot test for the first time...
On the eve of the Ukraine Independence Day, State Design Office "Yuzhnoye" conducted the hot test of the third stage of "Cyclone-4" launch vehicle....
Syria of Classical Antiquity’s interaction with Scythia-Ukraine in the 6th Century...
"Meanwhile, the Scythians as allies of the Assyrians tried to raise the siege of Nineveh which was being prosecuted by the Medes; hence a...