Athenian-type helmet from Scythian barrow in Ukraine
In 1845, near the village of Zvenyhorodka in the Cherkasy oblast of Ukraine, a notable barrow was opened. The barrow was different from the...
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,...
Scythian Goddess Argimpasa [Aphrodite Ourania] Pole-Top
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: "......
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...
Artemis’ Cult originated in Taurica, present-day Crimea?
"Properly speaking Artemis stands for something different from either Demeter or Aphrodite. She stands for the fact of life itself as it exists in...
Kyiv Rus were Hyperborean Tauro-Scythians, – 12th-century Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates
Niketas Choniates was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning...
Statue of Young Kanishka, King of Kushan Empire, Patron of Gandharan Buddism
“If this child stays in the world, he will become a great all-wheeled king in the future, and if he goes home, he will...
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...
Griffin Pendants from 11th century Kyiv in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Temple Pendant with Filigree Border | Kyivan Rus’ | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: These temple pendants are decorated on one side with griffins, mythical...
Armenia’s most famous rulers were of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty, – Moses of Chorene
Moses of Chorene (c. 410–490s AD) was a prominent Armenian historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians. Movses identified himself as a young disciple...
