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....

Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival

Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...

Heart-shaped ornamentations on Kyiv Rus textiles 1000 years ago. ‘Sacral Ivy’?

What could that ornamentation be? The author of this article thinks that it is a representaion of an ivy leaf. We see this plant...

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...

Battle of Pygmies and Cranes: Pre-Homeric route from Scythia to Africa

Homer in the Iliad: With shouts the Trojans, rushing from afar,  Proclaim their motions, and provoke the war  So when inclement winters vex the plain  With piercing frosts, or...

Scythians and Cannabis: making clothes, steam-bathing, getting high

Did you know that when you say 'Cannabis' you 'speak Scythian'? If you did not know that, now you do, because according to Wikipedia,...

Face of Original Iran ruler: Colossal statue of Sassanian King Shapur I

Per Wikipedia, the term Iran was first attested in a 3rd-century A.D. inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam. The inscription where the term Iran is mentioned for...

Scythian Trident Pole-top from Alexandropol Kurgan in Ukraine. Can the Trident of Ukraine’s Coat...

Scythian bronze Trident Pole-top with sculptured figures of birds with bells in the beaks on its tips dating to the 4th c. B.C. was...

Statue of Young Kanishka, King of Kushan Empire, Patron of Gandharan Buddism

“If this child stays in the world, he will become a great all-wheeled king in the future, and if he goes home, he will...

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...