Battle Axes of Kyiv Rus: Nearly perfect efficiency ahead of time

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“Ancient Rus’ blacksmiths of the 10th-13th centuries fully mastered all the basic technical techniques of iron processing and determined the technical level of village...

Important Chernyakhiv Culture Was Local to Ancient Kyiv Rus-Ukraine: It was Scytho-Slavic, not Gothic

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Wikipedia page states that the Chernyakhiv Archaeological Culture “territorially replaced its predecessor, the Zarubintsy culture. Both cultures were discovered by the Czech archaeologist Vikentiy...

Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival

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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’...

10th-century Rus’ Helmet from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Assyrian prototype?

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“The "Gifts of the East," which appeared in large quantities in the Rus’ regions in the 7th and 8th centuries, are not limited to...

Rurik, ‘Founder of Rus’ Dynasty’, Never Existed: Moscow may have invented the whole story...

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Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...

Ukraine Vyshyvanka/ Embroidery Shirt Day

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In 2020, Google created a Doodle honoring the Ukrainian embroidered shirt in commemoration of International Vyshyvanka Day: "Held each year on the third Thursday of May, this...

Faces of Kyiv Rulers of the 11th c. AD on St. Sophia Frescos: Fair-haired...

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In an attempt to rewrite and appropriate the history of Kyiv Rus, the Muscovites have insistently portrayed Kyiv rulers as bearded men. Take a...

Sirens Flanking Tree of Life: Gold Enameled Temple Pendant from 11th Century Kyiv in...

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"When Kyivan Rus, a powerful new state to the north of the Byzantine Empire, accepted Christianity as its official religion in 988, the aristocracy...

John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainian women

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“On the way to our hotel we noticed, as everyone does, that the Ukrainian girls are very pretty, mostly blond, with fine womanly figures. They have...