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...

Unique Royal Hat of a Rus ruler from a barrow near Kyiv

The hat was discovered in 1877 by archaeologist Samokvasov in the same barrow as the shirt mentioned in the previous article. The hat is...

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...

The Slavs originated in the area of the Pripyat River in Ukraine, – ‘Manhunt:...

Per IMBD, the Manhunt: Unabomber series focuses on the FBI agent, a highly specialized linguist, who using unconventional means brought Ted Kaczynski, aka the "Unabomber", to...

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...

Dnieper River in the 5th century B.C. Description by Herodotus

"The fourth river is the Borysthenes, which is the largest after the Ister , and in our opinion the most productive, not only of...

‘Clearly Europeoid’ Scythian Skull Found in Ukraine: Facial reconstruction by M. Gerasimov

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...

Zoroastrian King of Armenia Tigranes II: Halley’s Comet on his Crown

Tigranes the Great (140–55 BC), was a member of the Artaxiad dynasty and King of Armenia from 95 BC to 55 BC. Under his reign, the...

Ariadne, Labyrinth dance, spindle-whorls in Scythian tombs

Homer in the Iliad wrote that "Daedalus in Cnossos once contrived; A dancing-floor for fair-haired Ariadne" and scholars are confident that it was the...

Kyiv King Yaroslav the Wise and the Wheel of Law/ Dharma Chakra

In Buddhism, the Dharma Chakra is widely used to represent the Buddha's Dharma (Buddha's teaching and the universal moral order), Gautama Buddha himself, and...