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Cradle of Civilizations, Trypillia

Mysterious Trypillia Culture in Ukraine was older than Egyptian and Sumerian ones. It constructed...

In the 1890s, while excavating an Upper Paleolithic site in central Kyiv, Czech archaeologist Vikenty Khvoika discovered artifacts of a later civilization. The...

Alexandropol Scythian Royal Kurgan in Ukraine: Chief of ‘Big Barrows’

A century ago, British academic Dr. E. Minns concluded that the finest of the Scythian kurgans were "about the bend of...
Trypillian Vase, ca 4000 BC. National Museum of History of Ukraine. Photo by the author of the article

Yin-Yang symbol was created in more northern area than China?

The theory that the original Yin-Yang symbol described the change of a pole’s shadow length during a year corresponds well with...

Scythian ceremonial gilded silver cup from Gaimanova Mogila Royal Kurgan in Ukraine

"The most outstanding work of Scytho-Classical art found in the Gaimanova Mogila kurgan is a small spherical gilded silver cup, with...

Ukrainian language is likely the closest to original Proto-Indo-European language

British philologist William Jones in early 1786 voiced his famous "Phililoger Passage" which is considered the beginning of Indo-European studies. Here...

Athenian-type helmet from Scythian barrow in Ukraine

In 1845, near the village of Zvenyhorodka in the Cherkasy oblast of Ukraine, a notable barrow was opened. The barrow was...

Proto-Indo-European homeland was in what is today Ukraine, – American Professor

"I believe with many others that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was located in the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas...

The earliest European proto-towns: Trypillia Mega-sites in Ukraine can be true Cradle of Civilization

One of the most famous Ukrainian archaeological sites - Maidanetske situated in Cherkassy oblast - can be a true Cradle of...

Unique Pole top with Papaiosa [Scythian Zeus] and Scythian World Tree 

"The only gods they try to appease are Hestia, who is their most important divinity, Zeus, and Earth," whom they consider...

Scythian Goddess Pole-Top

Scythian bronze Pole-top: a Scythian goddess, 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. Scholars like M. Rostovtzeff thought that the goddess...

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