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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...

Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

Famous Ukrainian archaeologist Boris Mozolevsky who excavated Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan and found the famous Golden Pectoral in it held the view that the ditches...

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...

Panteleimon Kulish’s 200th Birthday Doodle: "Today’s Doodle celebrates the renowned Ukrainian writer, historian, and translator Pateleimon Kulish, born on this day in 1819. Through...

The quotes below are from the bestselling book of the 18th century 'Travels in Russia' written by a British traveler Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822)....

"In the spring of 1048, having covered 3,000 kilometers, the envoys of French King Henry I arrived in Kyiv. Yaroslav welcomed the delegation and...

The DniproHES project used the experience gained from the construction of the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Stations at Niagara Falls, Ontario, the Hydroelectric...

"Now these accounts of Akhmil and the Cossacks, which we have so distinctly commemorated, were collected with the utmost care; and noted by me...

"The battle of Prokhorovka was steeped in Soviet legend (and myth) for many decades. This remained the case until post-Soviet era research revealed the...

"A titan of Ancient History and one of the greats of twentieth-century historical scholarship, Rostovtzeff" (Yale quote) observed: “There is a striking similarity between...

Feb., 2022. AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of history and the nature of humanity: is change...

The man who would open space to Humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907   in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His mother Maria...

Petro Shavrey was one of the three legendary brothers who participated in liquidating the fires on April 26 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant....