Cradle of Civilizations, Trypillia

Homer in the Iliad: With shouts the Trojans, rushing from afar,  Proclaim their motions, and provoke the war  So when inclement winters vex the plain  With piercing frosts, or...

The frieze vessel was found in the same chamber as the priestess. In the first scene, one lion-headed and one eagle-headed griffins tear a...

In 1965 in central Ukraine, a farmer expanding his cellar dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth and other large bones. Further excavations...

Did you know that when you say 'Cannabis' you 'speak Scythian'? If you did not know that, now you do, because according to Wikipedia,...

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe that he had with him...

Ovid in Ex Ponto: "And lately when I was telling of your loyalty (since I’ve learnt how to speak Getic and Sarmatian) it chanced that an old man,...

6,000 years ago, people in the Eastern European forest-steppe built planned settlements with houses in concentric rings. Archaeologists argue about whether an egalitarian social...

The picture was taken by the author of this post at noon (13 o'clock 'winter time') on December 20, 2023. The actual Winter Solstice...

According to Wikipedia, "the name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated...

A century ago, British academic Dr. E. Minns concluded that the finest of the Scythian kurgans were "about the bend of the Dnépr, near...