Royal Scythia

The picture was taken by the author of this post at noon (13 o'clock 'winter time') on December 20, 2023. The actual Winter Solstice...

"The Parthians, in whose hands the empire of the east now is, having divided the world, as it were, with the Romans, were originally exiles...

"On the S. side of the river, in the district of Melitopol, government of Taurida, is the barrow Tsymbalka near Bélozérka. As usual, the...

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....

Cicero: "Could the Scythian Anacharsis disregard money, and shall not our philosophers be able to do so? We are informed of an epistle of...

Homer in the Iliad wrote that "Daedalus in Cnossos once contrived; A dancing-floor for fair-haired Ariadne" and scholars are confident that it was the...

With 20m in height, Oguz was the second-largest Scythian barrow situated in the lower Dnieper area. Alexandropol Kurgan was the first with 24m, Chertomlyk...

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

The two birds on the plaque were identified as cranes by Gerhard Friedrich Müller (although others see in them herons which is hard to...

The sword was discovered in a burial mound near the village of Velyka Bilozerka, Zaporizhia Region, Ukraine. It dates to the last third of...