Cro-Magnon Couple from Crimea/Taurica c. 10,000 BC: Indigenous population of the peninsula

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...

5,500 years-old Yamnaya settlement in Ukraine sheds light on the origins of the mysterious...

Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia’s war on its western neighbor....

Amazon Sarcophagus from Terquinii, Etruscan Culture

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...

‘Targitaus hands his bow to his youngest son’ scene on Gaimanova Mogila cup?

Scythologist Dmitry Raevsky in an article at the UNESCO site wrote: "A few years ago, during the excavations at Gaimanova Mogila in Ukraine, a...

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...

Androphagi-Cannibals of the ancient Europe described by Herodotus lived in the area of present-day...

"These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching eastward a three days' journey to a river called Panticapes, and northward as far as an eleven...

‘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...
Yin-Yang geometry

Could Trypillian/Ukrainian ‘Yin-Yang’ be related to Megalithic stone circles in Britain?

From around 1933 to 1977, Professor of Engineering at Oxford Alexander Thom spent most of his weekends and holidays surveying megalithic sites in Britain....

Dancing ‘Aliens’: Silver figurines from Martynivka Treasure in Ukraine

Martynivka Treasure is a hoard consisting of 116 silver items (weighing about 3.3 kg) found in 1909, in the village of Martynivka, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. The treasure is...

Scythian Language: Proto-Indo-European, NOT Iranian

Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...