Scythians and Cannabis: making clothes, steam-bathing, getting high

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Did you know that when you say 'Cannabis' you 'speak Scythian'? If you did not know that, now you do, because according to Wikipedia,...

Ukrainian/ Zaporizhian Cossacks Naval Raid ‘in the heart of Ottoman empire’ fortress of Sinope...

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Kâtip Çelebi (1609 AD – 1657 AD) was a Turkish polymath and author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He compiled a vast universal bibliographic encyclopaedia of books and...

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...

Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Following in Darius the Great’s footsteps?

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"What was Herodotus' goal in undertaking a journey to the northern shore of Pontus ? What cities known to us does he mention? Where...

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...

First known Scorched Earth method took place in the area of Ukraine: Scythians used...

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The Scorched earth Wikipedia page tells us that "the Scythians used scorched-earth methods against the Persian Achaemenid Empire, led by King Darius the Great, during his European Scythian campaign....

‘One of the most perfect Scythic tombs known’: Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan

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In 1884, Polish archaeologist Godfryd Ossowski explored the great kurgan near the present-day city of Zvenigorodka, some 150km to the south of Kyiv. But...

Iranians are Ukrainians, a recent DNA study shows

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Why does a picture of a defiant Iranian girl have the vibes of a Ukrainian girl? Especially if one substitutes the picture of the...

Targitaos-Heracles, ‘Ukrainian’ forefather of Scythian Nation

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"According to the Scythians, theirs is the youngest of all nations, and it came into existence in the following way. The first man born...