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Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...

Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...

Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...

Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....

Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

In 2025, an article by geneticists Lehti Saag, Olga Utevska, and a number of Ukrainian archaeologists was published ‘North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine...

Alaska Purchase Wikipedia page tells that "having faced a catastrophic defeat in the Crimean War, Moscow began exploring the possibility of selling the state's Alaskan...

Theodore de Pauly, a member of the newly founded Imperial Russian Geographical Society (founded 1845), was the latest in a line of ethnographers, seeking...

Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...

"These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching eastward a three days' journey to a river called Panticapes, and northward as far as an eleven...

In early 2021 to the south of Dnipro city in central Ukraine, archaeologists discovered a huge ancient structure measuring 7.5 meters in height and...

In 1845, near the village of Zvenyhorodka in the Cherkasy oblast of Ukraine, a notable barrow was opened. The barrow was different from the...

This article had been written before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 - "Ukraine's Total Recall". For those looking...

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Serge Lifar was "a Ukrainian dancer and choreographer, and one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Lifar was also a choreographer,...

Per Wikipedia, Anti-Normanism theory postulates that the people of Kyiv Rus emerged solely from autochthonous Slavic political development (known as the 'anti-Normanist theory'). Surprisingly, among the proponents...

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