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Scythian Cavalry Heavy Armor: What museum recreation revealed
Gladkivshchina Kurgan #2 In 1982, researchers explored a burial site unique in its composition and state of preservation near the village of Gladkovshchina in central...
Scythian Top-Rank Warlords on Gaimanov Golden Bowl: Their faces, outfits &...
The famous 4th-century BC gilded silver bowl decorated with reliefs of elite Scythian warriors was discovered in the Gaimanova Mohyla Royal kurgan in the...
Scythian Armor Technology: Unique 5th-century BC iron scaly full protecive suit...
1976 December issue of The UNESCO Courier had the following passage: “How Scythian horsemen of 2,500 years ago dressed, and the kind of equipment they...
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...
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Why Crane. About this Website
Thank you for visiting my website. This site was created with the purpose to help you discover beautiful country of Ukraine. Why Crane anyway? Not just because...
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...
Ukraine is Not Russia. Crane vs Bear
In the famous movie The Transporter with David Statham it is put in basicly two phrases with deep meanings: "we are different people in heart and mind" (please...
Russia’s totem animal should be Jackal Tabaqui, not Bear
Totem is 'a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe'. Or country....
“Smoke on the water, the fire on Moskva” – Deep Purple...
"Smoke on the Water" - a new painting depicting the sinking of Russian warship "Maskva" in the Black Sea during the Russia's ongoing war...
Catherine II, the butcher of the Polish Commonwealth: Suvorov troops and...
The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...
The U.S. is violating the Budapest Memorandum by pressuring Ukraine to...
Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed on December 5, 1994, states: "The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and...
Finger-Rings with Famous Bosporan Gold Stater in Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan
As quoted in the previous part, the woman buried in Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan "wore eight rings, two seal rings, two sets with gold staters of...
In 12th century the land is first mentioned as Ukraine. Russia...
For the first time Ukraine was mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle. Not Little Rus’ or something else, but Ukraine. Nobody heard about Moscow and Russia at that...
Situla from Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan
Situla (plural situlae), from the Latin word for 'bucket' or 'pail', is the term in archaeology and art history for a variety of elaborate bucket-shaped vessels...
Canso spaceport partners with U.S. company to recycle Ukrainian rockets in...
"MLS plans to launch satellites for use in near-earth imaging, communications and scientific experiments from a spaceport it will develop in Canso, N.S. The company plans...