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Cradle of Civilizations, Trypillia

Historian Strabo’s amazing knowledge of Crimean/ Tauric Landmarks

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...

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 is what Jones...

The Sea Peoples: Birds Followers?

In that short passage in the Iliad about the cranes flying from winter plains to the pigmies in the south there is so much...

Russia exhibits stolen artifacts from the famous Kamyana Mohyla in Ukraine

The Russian occupants opened an exhibition in Tauric Chersonesus in Crimea of the artifacts they had stolen from the world-famous Kamyana Mohyla in the...

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 pieces of pottery...

The Rus raided Spain’s Seville in 844 AD arriving on boats. Arabic sources called...

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...

Most famous Scythian silver Amphora/Vase from Chertomlyk Royal Kurgan in Ukraine

The Amphora was found in 1863 in an impressive kurgan in the vicinity of Nikopol city in Ukraine and instantly taken to Hermitage. The...

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...

Scythian King Ateas defeated Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great,...

Ateas (ca. 429 BC – 339 BC) was described in Greek and Roman sources as the most powerful king of Scythia. His name also occurs as Atheas, Ateia, Ataias,...

Cromlech/ Stone Circle inside Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan

A cromlech is a megalithic circle made of large stones arranged vertically, often around a tomb or place of worship. (Stonehenge is the most famous example...