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Scythians in The Iliad of Homer: ‘Most decent men alive’
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...
Anacharsis: Scythian Frugality and Wisdom
Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...
Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine
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...
Richest Scythian Female Burial in Ukraine: Priestess-Queen in Griffins Headdress with...
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...
Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska
“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 are Slavs, wrote Ibn Khordadbeh before 860 AD. What...
“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...
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Deep in rural Ukraine, a man from North Carolina has returned to his roots, moving to a village with a population of 500...
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Ukrainian Igor Klymenko wins Global Student Prize
"Igor Klymenko, a student from Ukraine, passionate about raising awareness of and solving the global landmine problem, he developed the ‘Quadcopter Mines Detector’. Igor has...
Ukraine’s new tank can take on Russia’s best, but Kyiv can’t...
"When Kiev announced it would revive the same spirit of industry that bred its Soviet-era tank manufacture, boosting production for a new tank vehicle by...
Stalin revived Russian Orthodox Church to better control Ukraine
Kathryn David, a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State: "In September 1943, as the tide of the Second World...
Israeli currency features notable Jewish figures from Ukraine
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Ilya Repin: Only Ukrainian and Parisian women know how to dress with...
Ilya Repin was born in 1844 in the town of Chuguev in what is now Kharkiv oblast of Ukraine. Historically, the region was known...
Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival
Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...
Stalin planned to deport ALL Ukrainians to Siberia after WW2, Khrushchev...
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Half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya...
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This man coined the word ‘Genocide’. Here is Dr Lemkin’s speech...
Rafał Lemkin was a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing) (Wikipedia). On September...