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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 Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...

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...

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....

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...

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...

It has become "fashionable" to talk about corruption in Ukraine and there have been multiple reasons for that. There have been even claims made...

Richard Pipes (July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American academic who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. In 1976, he headed...

al-Masudi (c. 896–956), was a historian, geographer, and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs'. A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic...

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...

https://youtu.be/A7szL7wiBuY Discovery On June 21, 1971, while working inside the Scythian Kurgan, the head of the expedition, Borys Mozolevsky, began clearing the dromos, where a large...

"I always knew my last name was Ukrainian", - said the Apple co-founder on arriving to Ukraine's capital together with his wife. "This is one...

Ukrainian plane delivered a Boeing 777 engine from Zurich to Canadian Iqaluit where the Boeing was stuck with 233 passengers travelling to Los Angeles.  With the temperature being -30C, many specialists say...

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Do you recognize the future Super Heavyweight World Champ? His achievments as of December 22, 2024 below: Usyk famous Ukrainian haircut from previous fights >

Asif Azam Siddiqi is a Bangladeshi American space historian and a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. He is a professor of history with a specialization in...

"Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a...

Basically, it all started with that imposter Peter I ('the Great'). 1720: A decree by Tsar Peter I banned the printing of books in...