Royal Scythia

Mikhail Gerasimov (1907 - 1970) was a Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based on findings of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and forensic science. He studied the skulls and...

In the triangle on the sword’s handle, there is a representation of the god Pan playing on his syringa (Pan flute or Pan pipes)...

Niketas Choniates was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning...

Not many people know that Homer mentioned Scythians in his Iliad, only they are mentioned in it under different name. Here is the passage: Now...

Ovid in Ex Ponto: "And lately when I was telling of your loyalty (since I’ve learnt how to speak Getic and Sarmatian) it chanced that an old man,...

"Where can we look for the most ancient references to our Rus, that is, to the Rus’ people? We will not discuss the Biblical people...

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...

Situla (plural situlae), from the Latin word for 'bucket' or 'pail', is the term in archaeology and art history for a variety of elaborate bucket-shaped vessels...

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

Vima Kadphises (c. AD 113–127) was an Indo-Scythian King who expanded the Kushan territory in Afghanistan and northwest India. David Jongeward in his book 'Kushan Mystique' described Vima's...