Royal Scythia

We all read that the Scythians were some "Iranian tribes" that moved to the North around the ninth century B.C. Well, that is a...

“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...

Anacharsis was a legendary Scythian prince who made a trip to Athens in 6th century B.C. and made a friend with the famous Greek...

"They thrice aspired to the supreme command in Asia; while they themselves remained always either unmolested or unconquered by any foreign power. Darius, king...

B. Mozolevsky while commenting on the details of the world-famous Golden Pectoral he discovered in Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, noted the size of the heads...

The city of Darabgerd was one of the most famous of the Persian cities. Its ruins are located 9 km southwest of the modern...

In 1884, Polish archaeologist Godfryd Ossowski explored the great kurgan near the present-day city of Zvenigorodka, some 150km to the south of Kyiv. But...

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,...

Scythian bronze Pole-top: a waterfowl (swan?), 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. Griffins Pole Tops >

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...