Vettersfelde Gold Fish Plaque: Ties to Cyzicus and Royal Scythians
Denis Topal of the National Archaeology And History Museum Of Moldova: "The overall shape of the ‘fish’ looks like a member of the genus...
Kushan Empire Fireworshiping Kings with Tridents
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...
Circular city of Baghdad and its predecessors
The picture in the previous article shows how the round city of Baghdad looked in 768 AD after its construction was completed. The city's...
Arsacid Dynasty: Aryan Saka/Scythians?
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "since the late 20th century, a growing number of scholars have rejected both the Aryan invasion hypothesis and the use...
‘Targitaus hands his bow to his youngest son’ scene on Gaimanova Mogila cup?
Scythologist Dmitry Raevsky in an article at the UNESCO site wrote: "A few years ago, during the excavations at Gaimanova Mogila in Ukraine, a...
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...
Zoroastrian King of Armenia Tigranes II: Halley’s Comet on his Crown
Tigranes the Great (140–55 BC), was a member of the Artaxiad dynasty and King of Armenia from 95 BC to 55 BC. Under his reign, the...
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...
Anacharsis, the Scythian philosopher and prince
Cicero: "Could the Scythian Anacharsis disregard money, and shall not our philosophers be able to do so? We are informed of an epistle of...
Historian Strabo’s amazing knowledge of Crimean/ Tauric Landmarks
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe that he had with him...
