Royal Scythia

A.E. Liutsenko who excavated Alexandropol kurgan in 1854–55, was the first who preserved the skulls of the people who were buried in it. Unfortunately,...

https://youtu.be/37oOKaBMQyM Joint Ukrainian-American Scythian Kurgan Project The initial excavations of the Alexandropol kurgan in 1852–1856 left many questions unanswered, such as its date, design, inner structure,...

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...

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...

Below are several quotes from the works of Robert Graves: "It is not known what sort of a dance...

"Scythia is a quadrangle, two sides of which reach the sea, and the line running inland is the same length as the one that...

Byzantine court historian and chronicler Leo the Deacon (born c. 950) who is particularly known for his eyewitness description of Sviatoslav I of Kyiv during the latter's invasion...

The sheath was first described for international audience in the "Scythians and Greeks" book by E. Minns published in 1913. Below is a drawing...

You can read about the Oguz Royal Scythian Kurgan here.

Ibn al-Nadim (died 995) was an important Muslim bibliographer and biographer of Baghdad who compiled the encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist (The Book Catalogue). His work contains an interesting passage on the Rus in a...