Amazon Sarcophagus from Terquinii, Etruscan Culture

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...

Iphigenia in Tauris, modern-day Crimea

Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greek: Iphigeneia en Taurois) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. Although Wikipedia states that 'there...

‘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...

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...

Cro-Magnon Couple from Crimea/Taurica c. 10,000 BC: Indigenous population of the peninsula

Mikhail Gerasimov (1907 - 1970) was a Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based on findings of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and forensic science. He studied the skulls and...

5,500-year-old Megalithic Kurgan in Ukraine: Origin of spectacular funeral rites of the Scythians and...

In early 2021 to the south of Dnipro city in central Ukraine, archaeologists discovered a huge ancient structure measuring 7.5 meters in height and...

Tauroscythians-Rus spoke the Indo-Aryan language. Proper names of ancient Taurica/ Crimea prove it

Prominent Soviet specialist in historical linguistics Academician O. Trubachev (1930-2002) in his ‘Indoarica in the Northern Black Sea Region’ analyzed the names of famous...

Patroclus’ Funeral Rites in The Iliad: Similarities with Funeral Rites of Kyiv Rus

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is considered one of the most prominent English poets. Pope was fascinated by Homer since childhood and by 1720, he completed...

Zoroastrian Circular Cities: Darabgerd, Gur, Balkh

The city of Darabgerd was one of the most famous of the Persian cities. Its ruins are located 9 km southwest of the modern...

The Sea Peoples: Birds Followers?

In that short passage in the Iliad about the cranes flying from winter plains to the pigmies in the south there is so much...