5,500 years-old Yamnaya settlement in Ukraine sheds light on the origins of the mysterious...
Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia’s war on its western neighbor....
Scythian Armor Technology: Unique 5th-century BC iron scaly full protecive suit discovered in Ukraine
1976 December issue of The UNESCO Courier had the following passage: “How Scythian horsemen of 2,500 years ago dressed, and the kind of equipment they...
Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan in Ukraine could be the famous Queen Tirgatao
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...
The Rus on al-Kashgari Map of 1074
According to Wikipedia, "Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part...
Chinese Dragons were borrowed from Scythians?
"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...
Scythian sword in golden scabbard from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan
The Golden Pectoral and the Scythian sword in golden scabbards were saved by the large chunk of earth that had fallen from the ceiling...
Ditches around Scythian Kurgans
Famous Ukrainian archaeologist Boris Mozolevsky who excavated Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan and found the famous Golden Pectoral in it held the view that the ditches...
‘Scythian Square’ of Herodotus: Borders of Scythia in the 5th century B.C.
"Scythia is a quadrangle, two sides of which reach the sea, and the line running inland is the same length as the one that...
Persian Cavalry Raid Across Scythia: Darius receives ‘Bird, Mouse, Frog, 5 Arrows’ Gift from...
“A third of the time allocated by Darius for the entire Scythian campaign had already passed. Another 21 days were still needed to be...
Elk in Scythian Art of Borysthenites/Dnieper River Farmers: Proto-Slavs’ Totem Animal?
“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...














