Royal Scythia

Herodotus recorded the Greek myth of Herakles and the snake goddess in what is now Scythia: "The Hellenes who inhabit the Pontic region on...

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe that he had with him...

You can read about the Oguz Royal Scythian Kurgan here.

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...

Iryna Shramko an Assistant Professor at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University wrote in a scientific article The Dentine Enigma of Western Bilsk: "A...

The frieze vessel was found in the same chamber as the priestess. In the first scene, one lion-headed and one eagle-headed griffins tear a...

As quoted in the previous part, the woman buried in Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan "wore eight rings, two seal rings, two sets with gold staters of...

https://youtu.be/wATY2fhj5Zc During the 1855 excavations of the Central Tomb of Alexandropol Kurgan, the archaeologists discovered a niche in the western wall that was filled with...

"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...

The torques or gryvnas were the symbols of high office in the Scythian world. These adornments were worn by both men and women of...