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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...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

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...

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...

“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, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

“War is no new thing to Kiev. Starting with the raids of the savages from Tartary, it has been a place of war for thousands of...

Lubomyr Romankiw was born in 1931 when the city of Zhovkva was part of Poland. After WWII, the Romakiw family traveled to Munich, where...

In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "For my future work, I had to use experimental data obtained from the...

It's Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy this time with the book "The Gates of Europe: The History of Ukraine"   ("An indispensable guide to tragic history" - The Telegraph...

During the summer of 1856, A.E. Liutsenko reported finding the remains of a Scythian funeral cart in the kurgan. Considering its closeness to the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUhpAFYKPY A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in the Solokha Royal Kurgan in the Zaporizhzhia...

"The distinctive mark of a Black Sea Cossack, borne by the lower order among them, of a braided lock from the crown of the...

Created in 2006, the painting was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021 for $6 698 400.

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...

Investment coins with Ukrainian symbols have been issued in the United States. “American silver investment coins with denominations of 1 US dollar in 2022...

"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...

In 1965 in central Ukraine, a farmer expanding his cellar dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth and other large bones. Further excavations...