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...

Old Scythia of Herodotus. Where was it? How old could it be?

"Old Scythia starts from the Ister and continues, facing the south and south wind, up to the city called Kerkinitis. From there, extending...

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...

Megalithic Ukraine migrants built Stonehenge and founded Troy and Mycenae?

According to the Wiltshire Museum, the man buried close to Stonehenge in the Bush Barrow, was given Britain’s richest Bronze Age burial. The Bush...

Unique Royal Hat of a Rus ruler from a barrow near Kyiv

The hat was discovered in 1877 by archaeologist Samokvasov in the same barrow as the shirt mentioned in the previous article. The hat is...

Mezhyrich Mammoth Bone Hut is the most ancient human architecture known on earth. It...

In 1965 in central Ukraine, a farmer expanding his cellar dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth and other large bones. Further excavations...

Kyiv Rus were Hyperborean Tauro-Scythians, – 12th-century Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning...
Stolen from Melitopol Museum by Moscow ossupants during 2022 invasion

Taurians or Tauroscythians

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...

Eastern Ukraine, Don region 220 years ago: Edward Clarke’s eyewitness account of the population

The quotes below are from the bestselling book of the 18th century 'Travels in Russia' written by a British traveler Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822)....

The Rus were the Tauroscythians whose native land was Taurica/ Crimea. The first description...

The name Rus is first directly attested to in the 'Life of St. George of Amastris' written by Ignatios the Deacon (d. after 845)....