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Scythian Heraclean Bow: Stone Inscription of Archery Record Found in Ukraine
Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...
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...
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Ukrainian Borscht inscribed on the UNESCO List on Intangible Cultural Heritage
"Ukrainian borscht - national version of borscht consumed in several countries of the region - is an integral part of Ukrainian family and community...
Kistiakowsky, Truman, Stalin, dental drill, 10-dollar bet with Oppenheimer: The Trinity...
The quotes below are taken from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb by American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes: "On April...
Russia steals grain from Ukraine. Uses the same wording as in...
Russia officially authorized robbing Ukraine of its grain. In the scanned document above, Krasnoyarsk legislators permit "expropriation of the surpluss of last year's and...
10 Ukrainian Castles
"From the 13th century, the territory was widely contested and fought over between Lithuania, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Russia. A Cossack...
Moxel, ‘race of pure pagans’ to the north of Rus described...
William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. In 1248, he accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade. On...
Signature of Ukrainian Hetman Mazepa. Signature of Moscovy Tzar Peter I
Lord Byron devoted one of his best poems to Mazepa > Peter I's nature was displayed during his stay in London > Sabre of Ivan...
Gold Sheath and Ceremonial Sword from Vettersfelde Treasure
Denis Topal of the National Archaeology And History Museum Of Moldova: "The ceremonial sword from Vettersfelde Treasure belongs to the earliest part of the...
Lord Byron’s one of the most famous poems devoted to Ukrainian...
Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819. It is based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan...
Boxing star Vasyl Lomachenko took traditional Ukrainian Cossacks’ Hopak dance classes...
Even as he boxed, Vasyl also played soccer and hockey and wrestled. At 10, he began traditional Ukrainian folk dance. It wasn't Vasyl's idea, prancing...
Invading Ukraine in 2014, Moscow used the same fake excuse as...
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:...
Kyiv among 10 of the world’s best city views, – Guardian
Pastel-hued St Andrew’s Church, at the top of a steep hill in the historic Podil district of Kyiv, has wonderful baroque architecture. But what really...
Vsevolod the Bui-Tur/ Fierce Bull, a main character of The Tale...
Vsevolod Sviatoslavych (Bui-Tur), (died 1196) was a Kyiv Rus’ prince. He took part in numerous battles against the Cumans, including the campaigns led by his brother, Igor Sviatoslavych,...