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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...

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...

"Very few people had come to the field because our plane was not expected on that rainy morning. The Secretary of the Aeronautical Society...

Not the Onion Material: The Man in the Middle will become the Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World and Will Surpass the Achievements...

The gorytos was found in one of the Scythian Barrows in Ukraine and is now on display in Kyiv’s Museum of Treasures. Royal Scythia,...

St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is situated on the central hill of Kyiv overlooking the Dnieper River and the northern part of Ukraine's capital. It was...

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a well-known French writer who produced an enormous number of novels and short stories depicting the French society of...

A large Scythian royal kurgan Gaimanova Mohyla dating to the 4th century BC situated near Balky in the Zaporizhia oblast of Ukraine was...

"The Parthians, in whose hands the empire of the east now is, having divided the world, as it were, with the Romans, were originally exiles...

Scholars date Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan to the first half of the 4th century B.C. The woman buried it it was given a very sumptious...

A large Scythian Royal Kurgan of the 4th century BC situated near Pokrova in the Dnipro oblast of Ukraine was excavated in 1971 by...

The Year of the Snake has frequently been tumultuous for Russia. Revolutions in 1905 and 1917, collectivization & purges in 29, the war in...

"...Having travelled other five miles, over wild deserts and through extensive forests entirely destitute of water, in the course of which progress we had...