Royal Scythia

Moses of Chorene (c. 410–490s AD) was a prominent Armenian historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians. Movses identified himself as a young disciple...

The burial of the Scythian pair, husband and wife was found in the Ternopil region in Ukraine. It dates to circa 1,000 B.C. Professor...

Ovid in Ex Ponto: "And lately when I was telling of your loyalty (since I’ve learnt how to speak Getic and Sarmatian) it chanced that an old man,...

“Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,” is the opening line of the Iliad. Achilles was the warrior who became the very symbol...

https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

The phiale was found in the Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine.

"In the northern part into which the passage led lay a narrow board 2m. long with a hole to hold the bottom of the...

E. Minns in the "Scythians and Greeks" book published in 1913: "An isolated example recalling this type is the barrow called Perepjatikha, in the...

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...

Herodotus According to Greek historian Herodotus, the Scythian religion centered on seven divinities. He described them in the following way: The only gods the Scythians try...