Ariadne, Labyrinth dance, spindle-whorls in Scythian tombs
Homer in the Iliad wrote that "Daedalus in Cnossos once contrived; A dancing-floor for fair-haired Ariadne" and scholars are confident that it was the...
Artemis/Diana was Scythian goddess originally. Ovid
Ovid in Ex Ponto: "And lately when I was telling of your loyalty (since I’ve learnt how to speak Getic and Sarmatian) it chanced that an old man,...
Kyiv King Yaroslav the Wise and the Wheel of Law/ Dharma Chakra
In Buddhism, the Dharma Chakra is widely used to represent the Buddha's Dharma (Buddha's teaching and the universal moral order), Gautama Buddha himself, and...
Proto-Indo-European Language originated in Ukraine сa. 6,000 years ago: Hittites were the first to...
"Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognised that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first...
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,...
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...
Ukrainian Language is older than Sanskrit, – Polish linguist M. Krasusky in his 1880...
The Drevnost' Malorossiiskogo Yazyka book was published in 1880 in Odesa. It is available in the original language at Archive.org (In case the...
Krasnokutsk Scythian Barrow & northern European beast-style millennium later
"In the same neighbourhood as Chertomlyk is the Krasnokutsk barrow. In its mound Zabélin found the fragments of a funeral car broken up and...
Dnieper River in the 5th century B.C. Description by Herodotus
The fourth river is the Borysthenes, which is the largest after the Ister , and in our opinion the most productive, not only of...
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...
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