Targitaos-Heracles, ‘Ukrainian’ forefather of Scythian Nation
"According to the Scythians, theirs is the youngest of all nations, and it came into existence in the following way. The first man born...
Should Ukraine return to Crimea its historic name of Taurica?
Wikipedia quote: "Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period (16-19th c.), Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe......
The Rus raided Spain’s Seville in 844 AD arriving on boats. Arabic sources called...
Ya'qubi (died 897/8), also referred to as al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim Geographer born in Baghdad. Introduction to a recent publication of his work states...
Athenian-type helmet from Scythian barrow in Ukraine
In 1845, near the village of Zvenyhorodka in the Cherkasy oblast of Ukraine, a notable barrow was opened. The barrow was different from the...
Finger-Rings with Famous Bosporan Gold Stater in Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan
As quoted in the previous part, the woman buried in Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan "wore eight rings, two seal rings, two sets with gold staters of...
Parthian Empire once divided the world with Roman Empire. The Parthians were originally exiles...
"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...
Scythians in The Iliad
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...
Scythian King’s gorytos with the scenes of The Achilleid epic
The gorytos was found in one of the Scythian Barrows in Ukraine and is now on display in Kyiv’s Museum of Treasures. Royal Scythia,...
Sviatoslav the Brave of Kyiv was of Tauroscythian Royal Descent. Just like Anacharsis and...
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...
Russian ‘renovation’ of Kyiv St. Sophia frescoes in 1850s became ‘an act of vandalism...
"In the summer of 1843, during Solntsev’s stay in Kyiv, a discovery in the Kyivan St. Sophia led to one of the most thorough...
