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The Rus raided Spain’s Seville in 844 AD arriving on boats. Arabic sources called...

Ya'qubi (died 897/8), also referred to as al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim Geographer born in Baghdad. Introduction to a recent publication of his work states...

Scythian Sword in Golden Sheath from large multicomplex burial mound Mamai-Hora in Ukraine

Mamai-Hora or Mount Mamai is the largest multicomplex burial mound of national importance in the Northern Black Sea region. It is located on the left...

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...

Half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya Culture who lived...

March 8, 2025. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer.  For centuries, historians and linguists...

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,...

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...

Ukrainians are a brotherly nation to the Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. They have no relation...

At around 1800, famous English traveler Edward Daniel Clarke described his first impressions after meeting Ukrainians: "We began to perceive that the farther we...

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...

Heart-shaped ornamentations on Kyiv Rus textiles 1000 years ago. ‘Sacral Ivy’?

What could that ornamentation be? The author of this article thinks that it is a representaion of an ivy leaf. We see this plant...

‘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...