Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Why the Father of History made the journey

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Academician B. Rybakov in his 1979 book ‘Scythia of Herodotus’: “After half a century of destructive Greco-Persian wars, during which the many thousands of armies...

World’s Oldest Gold in the Wealthiest Burial of the 5th Millennium B.C. First Kings...

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In October 1972, near the modern-day city of Varna in Bulgaria a vast Copper Age necropolis dating to the 5th Millennium BC was discovered...

Siversky Donets River, not the Don, is the Tanais of Ptolemy and Herodotus: Eastern...

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Ptolemy, the famed Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, in his second most well-known work, Geography (Book 3.5), provides coordinates of the...

Chumaks, the Ox-Cart Drivers: Ukrainians named the Milky Way Galaxy after them – the...

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"We met frequent caravans of the Malo-Russians , who differ altogether from the inhabitants of the rest of Russia. Their features are those of...

‘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 Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan in Ukraine could be the famous Queen Tirgatao

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Scholars date Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan to the first half of the 4th century B.C. The woman buried it it was given a very sumptious...

Bilsk Scythian archaeological complex in Ukraine: Largest Fortified Settlement of the early Iron Age...

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Located in the Ukrainian forest steppe, the Bilsk archaeological complex is the largest archaeological site in the region, covering an area of about 5000...

Scythian sword in golden scabbard from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan

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The Golden Pectoral and the Scythian sword in golden scabbards were saved by the large chunk of earth that had fallen from the ceiling...

10th-century Rhyton from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Local and Indo-Iranian ornamentation motifs

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“The famous silver mounting of a bull's horn from Chernaya Mogila is a magnificent example of flat embossing. A unique example of 10th-century...

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...