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...
Battle of Pygmies and Cranes: Pre-Homeric route from Scythia to Africa
Homer in the Iliad: With shouts the Trojans, rushing from afar, Proclaim their motions, and provoke the war So when inclement winters vex the plain With piercing frosts, or...
5,500 years-old Yamnaya settlement in Ukraine sheds light on the origins of the mysterious...
Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia’s war on its western neighbor....
The name of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, consists of two words – ‘Bog’ (God)...
According to Wikipedia, "the name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated...
Trypillia Megasites: The first cities of humanity were not in Mesopotamia, but in Ukraine,...
6,000 years ago, people in the Eastern European forest-steppe built planned settlements with houses in concentric rings. Archaeologists argue about whether an egalitarian social...
‘Monkey and Cranes’ Gold Relief Overlay from Lytoi Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine
The two birds on the plaque were identified as cranes by Gerhard Friedrich Müller (although others see in them herons which is hard to...
Circular city of Baghdad and its predecessors
The picture in the previous article shows how the round city of Baghdad looked in 768 AD after its construction was completed. The city's...
The Sea Peoples: Birds Followers?
In that short passage in the Iliad about the cranes flying from winter plains to the pigmies in the south there is so much...
Circular Settlements of Trypillya Culture 6000 years ago in Ukraine: prototype of Plato’s ideal...
According to Wikipedia, Trypillia culture was a Neolithic–Chalcolithic archaeological culture (c. 5500 to 2750 B.C.) of Eastern Europe... During its middle phase (c. 4000...
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......
