Royal Scythia

Herodotus in his 'Histories' wrote: "But the women pour water into a mixture of cypress, cedar, and frankincense wood, which they have ground...

"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...

The gorytos (bow-and-arrow holder) discovered in one of Scythian Royal Kurgans in Ukraine puzzled the scholars who analyzed it. Because although it dates to...

At around 1800, famous English traveler Edward Daniel Clarke described his first impressions after meeting Ukrainians: "We began to perceive that the farther we...

Finger-ring, Kyivan Rus' / Kyivan Rus', Ukraine, Street of the Three Saints | The British Museum Images Silver finger-ring; bezel a cast disc; nielloed foliate...

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...

"Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognised that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first...

As a rule, the higher the kurgan, the more horses were buried in it. From this perspective, although almost 9 meters tall Tovsta Mogyla...

“On his return journey , besides Colchis, we can note another region whose narrative conveys a "presence effect." Herodotus several times mentions the city...

The famous 4th-century BC gilded silver bowl decorated with reliefs of elite Scythian warriors was discovered in the Gaimanova Mohyla Royal kurgan in the...