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Russian Occupiers in Ukraine: The Walking Dead Zombies, The Lord Of...
Zombies Comparing Russian soldiers to "zombies" is a common metaphor in the Ukrainian media and among the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine...
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...
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Gaimanova Mogyla Scythian Royal Kurgan in central Ukraine
A large Scythian royal kurgan Gaimanova Mohyla dating to the 4th century BC situated near Balky in the Zaporizhia oblast of Ukraine was...
Ukrainian Village after WW2: John Steinbeck description of 1947
" Shevchenko has never been one of the best farms because its land is not of the first quality, but before the war it...
Kyiv Rus vs. Golden Horde: Catherine II’s curious details about the...
After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...
Alexandropol Scythian Royal Kurgan in Ukraine: Chief of ‘Big Barrows’
A century ago, British academic Dr. E. Minns concluded that the finest of the Scythian kurgans were "about the bend of the Dnépr, near...
Scythian sword in golden scabbard from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan
The Golden Pectoral and the Scythian sword in golden scabbards were saved by the large chunk of earth that had fallen from the ceiling...
Circular city of Baghdad and its predecessors
The picture in the previous article shows how the round city of Baghdad looked in 768 AD after its construction was completed. The city's...
Ukraine to send rockets into space from Australia’s Kimberly?
"Rockets could be blasting into orbit from Derby within five years if the State and Federal governments get behind an ambitious proposal from the...
Vitaly Klitschko inducted in the Boxing Hall of Fame
"Klitschko was elected to the Hall of Fame in December, three years after he decided to re-enter politics in his native Ukraine. Also...
Mystery of How Kyiv Shaped Early Christianity in Norway
The third largest Norwegian city is Trondheim. It is best known for being linked to unruly Viking kings but now it turns out to become...
Ukrainian Borscht inscribed on the UNESCO List on Intangible Cultural Heritage
"Ukrainian borscht - national version of borscht consumed in several countries of the region - is an integral part of Ukrainian family and community...
World’s Oldest Gold in the Wealthiest Burial of the 5th Millennium...
In October 1972, near the modern-day city of Varna in Bulgaria a vast Copper Age necropolis dating to the 5th Millennium BC was discovered...