Cradle of Civilizations, Trypillia

"Ceramic vessels - plate and bowl from grave 4 of the Varna Chalcolithic necropolis. The plate is a wide flat plate and the bowl...

Scythian bronze Pole-top: a Scythian goddess, 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. Scholars like M. Rostovtzeff thought that the goddess was Argimpasa: "......

Ateas (ca. 429 BC – 339 BC) was described in Greek and Roman sources as the most powerful king of Scythia. His name also occurs as Atheas, Ateia, Ataias,...

The sarcophagus, painted with various scenes of an Amazonomachia, was discovered in 1869 in a grave at a little distance from Corneto, a city in...

The earliest known depiction of Yin-Yang symbol belongs to the Trypillia culture and dates to 5200 B.C. The oldest preserved drawing of this symbol...

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

The ancient jug was found in 1899 during excavations near the village of Romashky in the Kyiv region by the prominent Czech archaeologist Vikentii...

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...

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...

Professor of History  Dr. C. Raffensperger in Introduction to his recently published book 'Kingdom of Rus': "Examining a wide range of medieval sources, the...