Chainmail Armor of Kyiv Rus: Ahead of Western Europe and Vikings by centuries
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a prominent Soviet archaeologist and historian who represented the Soviet Academy of Sciences at the Columbia University Bicentennial in...
Mysterious Kernosiv Idol from Ukraine dating Third millennium BC is one of the finest...
According to Ukr Wiki, the unique statue was accidentally discovered while digging a silo pit in 1973 near the village of Kernosiv in the...
Horse was first domesticated in Ukraine 6000 years ago
Adrian Parvulescu in his scientific article The Indo-European Horse: A linguistic reconstruction writes the following: "Archaeologically reconstructed, the IE horse was a relatively...
Amazons in European Scythia [Ukraine]: Fighting side-by-side with men
https://youtu.be/W58UguK4DEY In the past century, intense archaeological excavations of the Scythian period kurgans were conducted in Southern Ukraine. The findings revealed that in Scythian times, female...
Kyiv Golden Gate at Winter Solstice
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...
Dnieper River in the 5th century B.C. Description by Herodotus
"The fourth river is the Borysthenes, which is the largest after the Ister , and in our opinion the most productive, not only of...
Iphigenia in Tauris, modern-day Crimea
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...
Kushan Empire Fireworshiping Kings with Tridents
Vima Kadphises (c. AD 113–127) was an Indo-Scythian King who expanded the Kushan territory in Afghanistan and northwest India. David Jongeward in his book 'Kushan Mystique' described Vima's...
World’s Oldest Gold in the Wealthiest Burial of the 5th Millennium B.C. First Kings...
In October 1972, near the modern-day city of Varna in Bulgaria a vast Copper Age necropolis dating to the 5th Millennium BC was discovered...
‘Clearly Europeoid’ Scythian Skull Found in Ukraine: Facial reconstruction by M. Gerasimov
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...

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