Cradle of Civilizations, Trypillia

According to Wikipedia, "the name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated...

Wikipedia quote: "Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period (16-19th c.), Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe......

"Properly speaking Artemis stands for something different from either Demeter or Aphrodite. She stands for the fact of life itself as it exists in...

“Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,” is the opening line of the Iliad. Achilles was the warrior who became the very symbol...

Trishula is a trident, a divine symbol, commonly used as one of the principal symbols in Hinduism... The trishula has a number of interpretations in Hindu...

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....

The city of Darabgerd was one of the most famous of the Persian cities. Its ruins are located 9 km southwest of the modern...

American professor of literature Joseph Campbell in his famous book The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology shares quite an interesting observation on the culture of the area and...

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...

The picture was taken by the author of this post at noon (13 o'clock 'winter time') on December 20, 2023. The actual Winter Solstice...