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...
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...
The Rus on al-Kashgari Map of 1074
According to Wikipedia, "Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part...
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...
Half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya Culture who lived...
March 8, 2025. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists...
Silver Finger-Ring from 12th century Kyiv in the British Museum
Finger-ring, Kyivan Rus' / Kyivan Rus', Ukraine, Street of the Three Saints | The British Museum Images Silver finger-ring; bezel a cast disc; nielloed foliate...
Griffin Pendants from 11th century Kyiv in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Temple Pendant with Filigree Border | Kyivan Rus’ | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: These temple pendants are decorated on one side with griffins, mythical...
Armenia’s most famous rulers were of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty, – Moses of Chorene
Moses of Chorene (c. 410–490s AD) was a prominent Armenian historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians. Movses identified himself as a young disciple...
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...
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...
