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Scythians in The Iliad of Homer: ‘Most decent men alive’
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...
Anacharsis: Scythian Frugality and Wisdom
Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...
Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine
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...
Richest Scythian Female Burial in Ukraine: Priestess-Queen in Griffins Headdress with...
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...
Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska
“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 are Slavs, wrote Ibn Khordadbeh before 860 AD. What...
“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...
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The name of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, consists of two words...
According to Wikipedia, "the name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated...
Central WW2 Victory Parade should have always been held in Kyiv
In 1945, American war correspondent Edgar Snow visited Ukraine and wrote: “It was not until I went on a sobering journey into this twilight of...
DNA test shows that the Swedes came from Ukraine
Google translation of the original text in Swedish: "When the host of the documentary series "The first Swedes tested its DNA, showed that his genetic makeup...
Honoré de Balzac in Ukraine: the Kingdom of Wheat, the Prairies...
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a well-known French writer who produced an enormous number of novels and short stories depicting the French society of...
“The Russian is Asiatic, with no regard for human life, barbarian...
"The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an...
Ukraine Can Fly
Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv and before immigrating to the United States and founding Sikorsky Aicraft Corporation there, became famous by building world’s first four-engine...
Sculptured birds on Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan
"Royal Scythia, Greece, Kyiv Rus" book has some insights about Gorden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla.
Tauric Chersonesus in Crimea vandalized by Russians in the 18th century,...
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe: "The country included within the isthmus...
Ancient gold coin from Bosporan Kingdom in Crimea sells for a...
"The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise...
Giant abandoned space-age saucer: Kiev Bus Garage Number 7 – CNN
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Source of the centuries-long conflict and European wars: Ukraine-Russia Orthodox matter...
Quotes below are from "The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999" by Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing year should remove possible accusation...
Nicholas Chain Bridge in Kyiv was the largest bridge in Europe
The bridge was designed by Irish engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles. Construction started in 1848 and was completed in 1853. The 776-metre-long (2,546 ft) bridge was the...