Scythian Language: Proto-Indo-European, NOT Iranian

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Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...

Scythian Supreme Goddess Tabiti: The only Indo-Aryan female Fire Deity

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Herodotus According to Greek historian Herodotus, the Scythian religion centered on seven divinities. He described them in the following way: The only gods the Scythians try...

Scythian Cavalry Heavy Armor: What museum recreation revealed

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Gladkivshchina Kurgan #2 In 1982, researchers explored a burial site unique in its composition and state of preservation near the village of Gladkovshchina in central...

Scythian Top-Rank Warlords on Gaimanov Golden Bowl: Their faces, outfits &...

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The famous 4th-century BC gilded silver bowl decorated with reliefs of elite Scythian warriors was discovered in the Gaimanova Mohyla Royal kurgan in the...

Scythian Armor Technology: Unique 5th-century BC iron scaly full protecive suit...

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1976 December issue of The UNESCO Courier had the following passage: “How Scythian horsemen of 2,500 years ago dressed, and the kind of equipment they...

Scythians in The Iliad of Homer: ‘Most decent men alive’

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Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...

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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...

Artemis/Diana was Scythian goddess originally. Ovid

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Ovid in Ex Ponto: "And lately when I was telling of your loyalty (since I’ve learnt how to speak Getic and Sarmatian) it chanced that an old man,...

Ukrainian Myron Diduryk, “the finest battlefield company commander I had ever...

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“Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion had good, solid, professional noncoms, and its troops had served together for a long time. It was a good rifle...

Igor Sikorsky set a world speed record of 113 km/h on...

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In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "For my future work, I had to use experimental data obtained from the...

Crimea was a desert in 1953 when Khrushchev visited it. For...

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"...Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, learned the lesson up close and personal. In 1953 he travelled to Crimea with his son-in-law, the prominent Soviet journalist...

The Sea Peoples: Birds Followers?

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In that short passage in the Iliad about the cranes flying from winter plains to the pigmies in the south there is so much...

Ukrainian Igor Klymenko wins Global Student Prize

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"Igor Klymenko, a student from Ukraine, passionate about raising awareness of and solving the global landmine problem, he developed the ‘Quadcopter Mines Detector’.  Igor has...

Scythian King Ateas defeated Philip II of Macedon, the father of...

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Ateas (ca. 429 BC – 339 BC) was described in Greek and Roman sources as the most powerful king of Scythia. His name also occurs as Atheas, Ateia, Ataias,...

Fingers point at Russian state over Petya hack attack on Ukraine,...

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“As important government systems have been targeted, then in case the operation is attributed to a state, this could count as a violation...

Catherine II, the butcher of the Polish Commonwealth: Suvorov troops and...

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The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...