Secret of gold-painted ceramic vessels from Varna Necropolis
"Ceramic vessels - plate and bowl from grave 4 of the Varna Chalcolithic necropolis. The plate is a wide flat plate and the bowl...
Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian prominent sculptor inspired by Scythian Art
M. Shkandrij in his 'Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine' published in Boston in 2019, wrote that Alexander Archipenko "called for a renewal of “ancient polychromy which is far...
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...
Should Ukraine return to Crimea its historic name of Taurica?
Wikipedia quote: "Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period (16-19th c.), Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe......
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...
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...
Targitaos-Heracles, ‘Ukrainian’ forefather of Scythian Nation
"According to the Scythians, theirs is the youngest of all nations, and it came into existence in the following way. The first man born...
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...
World’s Oldest Gold in the Wealthiest Burial of the 5th Millennium B.C. First Kings...
In October 1972, near the modern-day city of Varna in Bulgaria a vast Copper Age necropolis dating to the 5th Millennium BC was discovered...
Historian Strabo’s amazing knowledge of Crimean/ Tauric Landmarks
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe that he had with him...