The Rus on al-Kashgari Map of 1074
According to Wikipedia, "Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part...
Should Ukraine return to Crimea its historic name of Taurica?
Wikipedia quote: "Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period (16-19th c.), Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe......
Half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya Culture who lived...
March 8, 2025. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists...
Circular Settlements of Trypillya Culture 6000 years ago in Ukraine: prototype of Plato’s ideal...
According to Wikipedia, Trypillia culture was a Neolithic–Chalcolithic archaeological culture (c. 5500 to 2750 B.C.) of Eastern Europe... During its middle phase (c. 4000...
Odysseus-type ship discovered in the Black Sea became the oldest intact shipwreck known to...
"Oct. 2018. BULGARIA. Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck at the bottom of the Black Sea where...
Name ‘Iran’ came to Near East from Europe together with Aryan migration
According to Wikipedia, the term Iran derives from Middle Persian Ērān, first attested in a third-century A.D. inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam, with the accompanying...
He, Who Fights Alone: Volodymyr Monomakh, fearless hunter and Kyiv Rus’ outstanding military ruler
Volodymyr Monomakh was born a year before the death of Yaroslav “the Wise.” Vsevolod, Volodymyr’s father, was Yaroslav’s youngest son. The Primary Chronicle records...
Arsacid Dynasty: Aryan Saka/Scythians?
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "since the late 20th century, a growing number of scholars have rejected both the Aryan invasion hypothesis and the use...
Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Art from Mezin Paleolithic site in Ukraine. Birthplace of Goddess...
American professor of literature Joseph Campbell in his famous book The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology shares quite an interesting observation on the culture of the area and...
Scythian Battle-Scene Golden Comb from Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine
A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in Solokha Royal Kurgan in Zaporizhzhia region of...
