Gold Fish Plaque, Center Ornament of Scythian Shield from Vettersfelde Treasure

"In October 1882 there were ploughed up near Vettersfelde in Lower Lusatia and acquired for the Antiquarium in Berlin the fragments of a great...

The Rus on al-Kashgari Map of 1074

According to Wikipedia, "Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part...

Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Art from Mezin Paleolithic site in Ukraine. Birthplace of Goddess...

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...

The name of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, consists of two words – ‘Bog’ (God)...

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...

Silver Finger-Ring from 12th century Kyiv in the British Museum

Finger-ring, Kyivan Rus' / Kyivan Rus', Ukraine, Street of the Three Saints | The British Museum Images Silver finger-ring; bezel a cast disc; nielloed foliate...

Tauroscythian King Scilurus, founder of Scythian Neapolis in Taurica/Crimea: Facial reconstruction by M. Gerasimov

A powerful Scythian Kingdom existed in Northern Crimea/Taurica in the 2nd century BC. Its capital was Scythian Neapolis, near the modern city of Simferopol.Archaeological...
Scythian (?) shirt, Rossava village Royal Barrow, 1877

Kyiv (Kyawh) was famous for its textile in the 10th c. even in Asia...

"The cloth of these lands and localities is famous, especially that of their capital, which is called Kyawh. Famous and noted cities of the Rus are Crsk and Hrqh." A...

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...

Iranians are Ukrainians, a recent DNA study shows

Why does a picture of a defiant Iranian girl have the vibes of a Ukrainian girl? Especially if one substitutes the picture of 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...