Scythian Cavalry Heavy Armor: What museum recreation revealed

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Gladkivshchina Kurgan #2 In 1982, researchers explored a burial site unique in its composition and state of preservation near the village of Gladkovshchina in central...

Scythian Top-Rank Warlords on Gaimanov Golden Bowl: Their faces, outfits &...

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The famous 4th-century BC gilded silver bowl decorated with reliefs of elite Scythian warriors was discovered in the Gaimanova Mohyla Royal kurgan in the...

Scythian Armor Technology: Unique 5th-century BC iron scaly full protecive suit...

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1976 December issue of The UNESCO Courier had the following passage: “How Scythian horsemen of 2,500 years ago dressed, and the kind of equipment they...

Scythians in The Iliad of Homer: ‘Most decent men alive’

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Anacharsis: Scythian Frugality and Wisdom

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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

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Austrian page in Ukraine’s history. (Quotes from a Yale Professor’s book)

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Map of Ukraine of 1650 by French cartographer Beauplan

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Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French army engineer, architect, and cartographer. From 1630 to 1648 he was a captain in...

Burial of a Scythian Amazon noble in the Dnipro region of...

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Hetman Mazeppa’s Legendary Sabre mentioned by Lord Byron: stolen by Moscow,...

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This done, Mazeppa spread his cloak, And laid his lance beneath his oak, Felt if his arms in order good The long day's march had well withstood...

Iphigenia in Tauris, modern-day Crimea

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Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greek: Iphigeneia en Taurois) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. Although Wikipedia states that 'there...

Only Ukraine is true Rus/’Russia’. Muscovy is a successor of the...

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Historic Event – Holy Synod proceeds to the granting of Autocephaly...

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Polish WW2 Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug said he had...

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Metallica endorses Ukrainian musician-turned-solder’s performance of their ‘Nothing Else Matters’ song...

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It’s Kyiv Rus correct not Kievan Rus

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