Scythians had enormous stature and were a terrifying sight for enemies
"In the daytime, however, the first thing to meet the Macedonians would be the terrifying sight of Scythians and Bactrians with their shaggy faces...
Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: Gold Torque or Gryvna
The gold hryvnia that was found on the neck of the Queen is one of the most artistically perfect works of goldsmithing. Its weight...
Scythian Funeral Cart from Alexandropol Kurgan
During the summer of 1856, A.E. Liutsenko reported finding the remains of a Scythian funeral cart in the kurgan. Considering its closeness to the...
Famous Hjortspring Boat Unearthed in Scandinavia Came from Eastern Baltic, 2,400-Year-Old Evidence Shows. Can...
"An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where some mysterious attackers came from during...
Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan where Scythian Gold Pectoral was found
A large Scythian Royal Kurgan of the 4th century BC situated near Pokrova in the Dnipro oblast of Ukraine was excavated in 1971 by...
World’s Oldest Gold in the Wealthiest Burial of the 5th Millennium B.C. First Kings...
In October 1972, near the modern-day city of Varna in Bulgaria a vast Copper Age necropolis dating to the 5th Millennium BC was discovered...
Alexandropol Scythian Royal Kurgan in Ukraine: Chief of ‘Big Barrows’
A century ago, British academic Dr. E. Minns concluded that the finest of the Scythian kurgans were "about the bend of the Dnépr, near...
Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Places the Father of History visited
“Without repeating what has already been said about Herodotus's brief excursions around Olbia (Cape Hippola, the sanctuary of Demeter, Hylaea, the mouth of the...
Amazons Female Warriors Burials in Scythia [Ukraine]
In the past century, intense archaeological excavations of the Scythian period kurgans were conducted in Southern Ukraine. The findings revealed that in Scythian times, female...
Indian Trishula, Ukrainian Trident
Trishula is a trident, a divine symbol, commonly used as one of the principal symbols in Hinduism... The trishula has a number of interpretations in Hindu...
