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...
Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival
Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...
The first Scorched Earth policy was used by Scythians in the area of what...
Scorched earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and...
Armenia’s most famous rulers were of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty, – Moses of Chorene
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...
‘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...
Ukraine’s Snake (Zmiiny) Island Is Where Achilles Supposedly Went Mad and Wiped Out the...
At last world media start seeing that some of the Greek myths actually take place in the area of present-day Ukraine. "The most striking...
Russian ‘renovation’ of Kyiv St. Sophia frescoes in 1850s became ‘an act of vandalism...
"In the summer of 1843, during Solntsev’s stay in Kyiv, a discovery in the Kyivan St. Sophia led to one of the most thorough...
Scythians making human leather of their enemies described by Herodotus has been confirmed by...
Ancient nomads known as the Scythians did indeed use human skin for the containers that held their arrows—confirming the account of the ancient Greek...
Darius the Great Flees Scythia/Ukraine: Saved by donkeys and the bridge
“Darius sent a horseman to Idanthyrsos king of the Scythians with this message: "You extraordinary man! Why do you keep fleeing when you certainly...
Scythian Goddess Argimpasa [Aphrodite Ourania] Pole-Top
Scythian bronze Pole-top: a Scythian goddess, 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. Scholars like M. Rostovtzeff thought that the goddess was Argimpasa: "......
