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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...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

The Treaty of Constantinople was concluded on 13 July 1700. The Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire agreed on a truce set to expire...

Asif Azam Siddiqi is a Bangladeshi American space historian and a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. He is a professor of history with a specialization in...

AMSTERDAM, June 9, 2023 - Ancient Crimean gold artifacts that were on show abroad should be returned to Ukraine, and not to Crimea which...

"Contemporaries and scholars of Archipenko acknowledge the influence of his ideas on the development of twentieth-century sculpture. Gino Severini, who met him in Paris in...

R-36 is the world's largest and most dangerous Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) ever built. And it is solely Ukraine's know-how. Highly accurate guided missiles...

Then-future President Ronald Reagan spoke on behalf of Presidential Candidate Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964 with a speech entitled "A Time For Choosing." At...

Dzhokhar Dudayev (15 February 1944 – 21 April 1996) was a Chechen politician, statesman, and military leader of the 1990s Chechen independence movement from...

Title: Chain with Birds and Geometric MotifsDate: 1000–1200Geography: Made in Kyiv (probably), UkraineCulture: Kyivan Rus’Medium: Cloisonné enamel, goldDimensions: Overall: 4 9/16 x 15/16 x 3/16 in. (11.6 x 2.4 x...

"On 112 minutes, Andriy Yarmolenko found the game's decisive moment, netting from close range after Bono could only parry Pablo Fornals' low shot." WHU...

Dec. 19, 2024. During his annual end-of-year press conference a smirking Putin said the following: "When everything is calm, measured, stable, we are bored...

At around 1800, famous English traveler Edward Daniel Clarke described his first impressions after meeting Ukrainians: "We began to perceive that the farther we...

The editors of Edward Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey published in 1839 in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers described the events...