Royal Scythia

The gold hryvnia that was found on the neck of the Queen is one of the most artistically perfect works of goldsmithing. Its weight...

In the past century, intense archaeological excavations of the Scythian period kurgans were conducted in Southern Ukraine. The findings revealed that in Scythian times, female...

"It was one of the ancient world's greatest battles, pitting a Carthaginian army commanded by the general Hamilcar against a Greek alliance for control...

"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...

Ibn al-Nadim (died 995) was an important Muslim bibliographer and biographer of Baghdad who compiled the encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist (The Book Catalogue). His work contains an interesting passage on the Rus in a...

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...

What could that ornamentation be? The author of this article thinks that it is a representaion of an ivy leaf. We see this plant...

In her PhD dissertation 'Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origin' presented at the University of London (available at Academia.edu), Anna Marie...

According to archaeologists, at least 14 horse burials were discovered intact in Alexandropol Royal Kurgan. Near the central chamber, a fully harnessed horse was...

Martynivka Treasure is a hoard consisting of 116 silver items (weighing about 3.3 kg) found in 1909, in the village of Martynivka, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. The treasure is...