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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...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
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...
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Scythian ceremonial gilded silver cup from Gaimanova Mogila Royal Kurgan in...
"The most outstanding work of Scytho-Classical art found in the Gaimanova Mogila kurgan is a small spherical gilded silver cup, with two flat horizontal...
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...
Name of Lithuanian capital Vilnius may have derived from Ukrainian word...
Speaking of Kyiv, by 1327, Kyiv had freed itself from the Mongols and had been part of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania for 7...
Who Was Buried in Alexandropol Kurgan: Skulls from Scythian Royal Barrow
A.E. Liutsenko who excavated Alexandropol kurgan in 1854–55, was the first who preserved the skulls of the people who were buried in it. Unfortunately,...
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
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Igor Sikorsky decided to build World’s First Four-Engine Airplane while still...
"The general idea of a large flying ship with several motors, and comfortable closed cabins, had been an ideal for a long time, but none had been designed. It...
Mr Jones film highlights Welsh ‘unknown hero’ Gareth Jones – BBC
The film includes graphic depictions of the famine and details Soviet efforts to suppress the truth. It is inspired by the true story of Gareth...
GitLab with Ukrainian roots raises $100M and becomes unicorn
GitLab, the developer service that aims to offer a full lifecycle DevOps platform, announced that it has raised a $100 million Series D funding...
Cat Stepan nominated for World Influencers and Bloggers Award 2022
Stepan is from Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Past month he temporarily moved to France. Recently, Cat Stepan raised $ 10 000 for other pets...
Androphagi-Cannibals of the ancient Europe described by Herodotus lived in the...
"These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching eastward a three days' journey to a river called Panticapes, and northward as far as an eleven...
Ukrainian Chumaks, Ox-Wagon Drivers, in Ivan Aivazovsky’s paintings
Future world-renowned outstanding marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) (1817-1900) was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. But Aivazovsky's...