Royal Scythia

"The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise...

In Buddhism, the Dharma Chakra is widely used to represent the Buddha's Dharma (Buddha's teaching and the universal moral order), Gautama Buddha himself, and...

According to Wikipedia, the term Iran derives from Middle Persian Ērān, first attested in a third-century A.D. inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam, with the accompanying...

Ancient nomads known as the Scythians did indeed use human skin for the containers that held their arrows—confirming the account of the ancient Greek...

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

The name Rus is first directly attested to in the 'Life of St. George of Amastris' written by Ignatios the Deacon (d. after 845)....

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

A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in Solokha Royal Kurgan in Zaporizhzhia region of...

A century ago, British academic Dr. E. Minns concluded that the finest of the Scythian kurgans were "about the bend of the Dnépr, near...

"A titan of Ancient History and one of the greats of twentieth-century historical scholarship, Rostovtzeff" (Yale quote) observed: “There is a striking similarity between...