Unique Kyiv Rus Jewellery Art of 1,000 AD: Created in Kyiv possibly even for...

L. V. Perars'ka, the Head of the Department of Medieval Kyiv at the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, and Special Research Assistant in...

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...

Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival

Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...

Ivory Artifact from Bilsk Scythian settlement in Ukraine; Its striking resemblance to Artifacts from...

Iryna Shramko an Assistant Professor at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University wrote in a scientific article 'The Dentine Enigma of Western Bilsk': "A...

Scythian Trident Pole-top from Alexandropol Kurgan in Ukraine. Can the Trident of Ukraine’s Coat...

Scythian bronze Trident Pole-top with sculptured figures of birds with bells in the beaks on its tips dating to the 4th c. B.C. was...

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...
Trypillian Vase, ca 4000 BC. National Museum of History of Ukraine. Photo by the author of the article

Yin-Yang symbol was created in more northern area than China?

The theory that the original Yin-Yang symbol described the change of a pole’s shadow length during a year corresponds well with the meaning of...

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,...

Artemis/Diana was Scythian goddess originally. Ovid

Ovid in Ex Ponto: "And lately when I was telling of your loyalty (since I’ve learnt how to speak Getic and Sarmatian) it chanced that an old man,...

Ancient Agrarian Calendar on 4th-century Romashky Jug found near Kyiv: Ties Ukraine with Chernyakhiv...

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