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Ancient Agrarian Calendar on 4th-century Romashky Jug found near Kyiv: Ties...
The ancient jug was found in 1899 during excavations near the village of Romashky in the Kyiv region by the prominent Czech archaeologist Vikentii...
Elk in Scythian Art of Borysthenites/Dnieper River Farmers: Proto-Slavs’ Totem Animal?
“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...
Amazons, Greeks, Scythians, Saurometae: Herodotus’ alleged visit to Amazons’ capital of...
“On his return journey , besides Colchis, we can note another region whose narrative conveys a "presence effect." Herodotus several times mentions the city...
Herodotus Measures Black Sea Coast
“Having obtained indisputable data on Herodotus's sea voyage around the Crimean Peninsula, confirming the high accuracy of his measurements, we must return to those...
Herodotus Measures Taurica/Crimea: Comparison with Italian Iapygia
“We have more compelling evidence of Herodotus's advance east of Pontic Olbia. Herodotus begins his account of Scythia's geography from the northwestern coast of...
‘Scythian Square’ of Herodotus: Borders of Scythia in the 5th century...
"Scythia is a quadrangle, two sides of which reach the sea, and the line running inland is the same length as the one that...
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Serge Lifar, world ballet great, recollects his native Kyiv of 1905-1921
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Mystery of How Kyiv Shaped Early Christianity in Norway
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This man coined the word ‘Genocide’. Here is Dr Lemkin’s speech...
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Signature of Ukrainian Hetman Mazepa. Signature of Moscovy Tzar Peter I
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In 1937, 300 Ukrainian poets, writers, and artists were executed in...
Executed Renaissance was a generation of Ukrainian language poets, writers, and artists of the 1920s and early 1930s who lived in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and who...
Olga of Kyiv Used Firebirds to Destroy Enemies 1000 years ago:...
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Castles of Kyiv Rus: Why the realm was called Gardariki
The title illustration and the one below were found in the book 'Zhivopisnaya Rossiya', vol. 5 that was published in 1897. The illustration below...
Russia’s war economy is a ticking financial time bomb now, –...
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Decorated Heraldic Griffin pressed on leather from Alexandropol Kurgan
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