Cradle of Civilizations, Trypillia

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...

Wikipedia: "The Tauri (/ˈtaʊəri/; Ταῦροι in Ancient Greek), or Taurians, also Scythotauri, Tauri Scythae, Tauroscythae (Pliny, H. N. 4.85) were an ancient people settled on the southern coast of the Crimea peninsula, inhabiting...

The sarcophagus, painted with various scenes of an Amazonomachia, was discovered in 1869 in a grave at a little distance from Corneto, a city in...

The legend of the Battle of Pygmies with Cranes was very popular in the Bosporan Kingdom in ancient times. As a reminder, the Bosporan...

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

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...

A powerful Scythian Kingdom existed in Northern Crimea/Taurica in the 2nd century BC. Its capital was Scythian Neapolis, near the modern city of Simferopol.Archaeological...

Ya'qubi (died 897/8), also referred to as al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim Geographer born in Baghdad. Introduction to a recent publication of his work states...

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

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...