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Scythian Heraclean Bow: Stone Inscription of Archery Record Found in Ukraine
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 Scythicon: Deadly arrows
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...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
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...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
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....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
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...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
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...
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Kushan Empire Fireworshiping Kings with Tridents
Vima Kadphises (c. AD 113–127) was an Indo-Scythian King who expanded the Kushan territory in Afghanistan and northwest India. David Jongeward in his book 'Kushan Mystique' described Vima's...
Vsevolod the Bui-Tur/ Fierce Bull, a main character of The Tale...
Vsevolod Sviatoslavych (Bui-Tur), (died 1196) was a Kyiv Rus’ prince. He took part in numerous battles against the Cumans, including the campaigns led by his brother, Igor Sviatoslavych,...
Ukraine disrupts the Russian church’s imperial vision – Eurasianet
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko scoffed at Putin’s claim. “Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv baptized not Russia, but Ukraine,” Poroshenko said on the eve of the...
Scythian Supreme Goddess Tabiti: The only Indo-Aryan female Fire Deity
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...
Scythians had enormous stature and were a terrifying sight for enemies
"In the daytime, however, the first thing to meet the Macedonians would be the terrifying sight of Scythians and Bactrians with their shaggy faces...
Kyiv’s Museum of Microminiatures: The Biggest Collection of Tiny Things, –...
"Hidden inside a Kiev religious complex lies the mind-blowing Museum of Microminiatures, which holds ships carved out of gold, books of poetry, and tiny...
Israeli currency features notable Jewish figures from Ukraine
"The Government of Israel has issued new twenty- and fifty-shekel banknotes, having replaced two natives of Ukraine with two cultural figures also connected...
Kyiv Rus were Hyperborean Tauro-Scythians, – 12th-century Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates
Niketas Choniates was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning...
King Yaroslav Osmomysl of Halych, Key Figure of ‘Song of Igor’s...
Yaroslav Osmomysl (c. 1135 – 1 October 1187) was a knyaz of Halych (now in western Ukraine). He is best-known for appearing in The Tale of Igor's Campaign. His sobriquet,...
Young Boxer Usyk with his First Coach and Vladimir Klitschko
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‘Chumaks path in Mariupol’ by Arkhip Kuindzi
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‘Ukrainian landscape with chumaks in the moonlight’ by I. Aivazovsky
" Chumak (Ukrainian: чумак) is a historic and traditional wagon-based trading occupation on the territory of modern Ukraine in late Medieval and early Modern periods of history. It consisted in the delivery...