Royal Child Burial in Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: Miniature wine vessels and rhyton

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According to scholars, the royal child burial in Tovsta Mogyla is the only unlooted one known. Most likely the child had a belt around...

Funeral ritual performed by warriors of Sviatoslav the Brave of Kyiv after the Battle...

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The battles during the Siege of Dorostolon were fought in 971 on Bulgarian soil between the Byzantine Empire and forces of Kyiv Rus. Byzantine court historian...

Dancing ‘Aliens’: Silver figurines from Martynivka Treasure in Ukraine

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Martynivka Treasure is a hoard consisting of 116 silver items (weighing about 3.3 kg) found in 1909, in the village of Martynivka, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. The treasure is...

‘Scythian Square’ of Herodotus: Borders of Scythia in the 5th century B.C.

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

Scythian Farmers, Skoloti, Proto-Slavs, Rus-Ukraine

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Soviet Academician Borys Rybakov, in his monograph ‘Handicraft of Ancient Rus’, wrote in 1948: “Funeral rites of the Middle Dnieper region in the 9th-10th centuries...

Kushan Empire Fireworshiping Kings with Tridents

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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...

Battle of Pygmies and Cranes: Pre-Homeric route from Scythia to Africa

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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...
Scythian Taming a Horse scene on the Chertomlyk Vase, 4th c BC

Horse was first domesticated in Ukraine 6000 years ago

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

Situla from Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan

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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...

Decorated Heraldic Griffin pressed on leather from Alexandropol Kurgan

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Alexeev A. Y. in the "Unknown griffins of Scythian Alexandropol kurgan" scientific article writes that during the excavations of 1854, a fragment of leather...