Rare Griffins on Frieze Vessel from Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan
The frieze vessel was found in the same chamber as the priestess. In the first scene, one lion-headed and one eagle-headed griffins tear a...
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...
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...
Merab Dvalishvili: ‘Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Georgia!’
Merab Dvalishvili has been a supporter of Ukraine for some time already. After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Merab made a statement...
Sanskrit is a branch of Ukrainian Language, – Polish linguist Krasusky in his 1880...
The Drevnost' Malorossiiskogo Yazyka was published in 1880 in Odesa. It is available in the original language at Archive.org (In case the link...
Zoroastrian Fire Worship and Purification of Metals: How and Where the Crucible ‘Damascus’ Steel...
In her PhD dissertation 'Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origin' presented at the University of London (available at Academia.edu), Anna Marie...
Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Art from Mezin Paleolithic site in Ukraine. Birthplace of Goddess...
American professor of literature Joseph Campbell in his famous book The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology shares quite an interesting observation on the culture of the area and...
Old Scythia of Herodotus. Where was it? How old could it be?
"Old Scythia starts from the Ister and continues, facing the south and south wind, up to the city called Kerkinitis. From there, extending...
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: "......
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...
