Darius the Great Flees Scythia/Ukraine: Saved by donkeys and the bridge

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“Darius sent a horseman to Idanthyrsos king of the Scythians with this message: "You extraordinary man! Why do you keep fleeing when you certainly...

Odysseus-type ship discovered in the Black Sea became the oldest intact shipwreck known to...

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"Oct. 2018. BULGARIA. Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck at the bottom of the Black Sea where...

Elk in Scythian Art of Borysthenites/Dnieper River Farmers: Proto-Slavs’ Totem Animal?

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“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...

Achilles and Ukraine

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“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...

Griffins Pole-Tops from Alexandropol Kurgan

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Scythian bronze Pole-top: figures of griffins, 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. < Scythian Trident Pole Top ...

Scythian Faces on Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, Ukraine

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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...

Chumaks, the Ox-Cart Drivers: Ukrainians named the Milky Way Galaxy after them – the...

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"We met frequent caravans of the Malo-Russians , who differ altogether from the inhabitants of the rest of Russia. Their features are those of...

Important Chernyakhiv Culture Was Local to Ancient Kyiv Rus-Ukraine: It was Scytho-Slavic, not Gothic

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Wikipedia page states that the Chernyakhiv Archaeological Culture “territorially replaced its predecessor, the Zarubintsy culture. Both cultures were discovered by the Czech archaeologist Vikentiy...

Who Was Buried in Alexandropol Kurgan: Skulls from Scythian Royal Barrow

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A.E. Liutsenko who excavated Alexandropol kurgan in 1854–55, was the first who preserved the skulls of the people who were buried in it. Unfortunately,...

Scythians in The Iliad

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Not many people know that Homer mentioned Scythians in his Iliad, only they are mentioned in it under different name. Here is the passage: Now...