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...

Statue of Young Kanishka, King of Kushan Empire, Patron of Gandharan Buddism

“If this child stays in the world, he will become a great all-wheeled king in the future, and if he goes home, he will...
Scythian Taming a Horse scene on the Chertomlyk Vase, 4th c BC

Horse was first domesticated in Ukraine 6000 years ago

Adrian Parvulescu in his scientific article The Indo-European Horse: A linguistic reconstruction writes the following: "Archaeologically reconstructed, the IE horse was a relatively...

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...

Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Art from Mezin Paleolithic site in Ukraine. Birthplace of Goddess...

American professor of literature Joseph Campbell in his famous book The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology shares quite an interesting observation on the culture of the area and...

Finger-Rings with Famous Bosporan Gold Stater in Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan

As quoted in the previous part, the woman buried in Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan "wore eight rings, two seal rings, two sets with gold staters of...

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....

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...

Papaiosa [Scythian Zeus] and Scythian World Tree unique pole-top

"The only gods they try to appease are Hestia, who is their most important divinity, Zeus, and Earth," whom they consider to be the...

Scythian King with Famous Comb from Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine: Details of Scythian...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z761ftJkko One of the largest Scythian Royal kurgans, the 18 meter-high Solokha kurgan in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, on the left bank of the...