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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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Ancient Agrarian Calendar on 4th-century Romashky Jug found near Kyiv: Ties...
The ancient jug was found in 1899 during excavations near the village of Romashky in the Kyiv region by the prominent Czech archaeologist Vikentii...
Mystery of How Kyiv Shaped Early Christianity in Norway
The third largest Norwegian city is Trondheim. It is best known for being linked to unruly Viking kings but now it turns out to become...
Yury Dolgoruky, Instigator and Impostor: Catherine II’s true opinion about the...
After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...
Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’
The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...
Scythian Trousers & Their Decorations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps2tin2JYhw Scythian artifacts offer a unique opportunity to explore the details of Scythian attire and weapons. For example, let’s take a closer look at one...
‘Putin Suicide” Monument in Kyiv
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Yaroslav the Wise’s Skeleton is ‘Undoubtedly of Local Origin’: Facial reconstruction...
Mikhail Gerasimov (1907 - 1970) was a Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based on findings of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and forensic science. He studied the skulls and...
Unique antique AN-70 creates sensation at Saudi Arabia airshow
The unique Antonov AN-70 short takeoff and landing (STOL) multipurpose cargo aircraft flew from Gostomel air terminal near Kiev to UAE for its international debut at the...
‘Russian is literally a two-legged pig’ – 18th century English traveler...
Edward Daniel Clarke (5 June 1769 – 9 March 1822) was an English naturalist, minerologist, and traveller (Wikipedia). One of his bestsellers sold over Europe was the "Travels...
Parthian Empire once divided the world with Roman Empire. The Parthians...
"The Parthians, in whose hands the empire of the east now is, having divided the world, as it were, with the Romans, were originally exiles...
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...
Trump blaming Ukraine for starting the war with Russia is akin...
Feb. 19, 2025, NBC News: "President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's invasion of the country three years ago, arguing...