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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...

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...

https://youtu.be/wATY2fhj5Zc During the 1855 excavations of the Central Tomb of Alexandropol Kurgan, the archaeologists discovered a niche in the western wall that was filled with...

< The  division of powers - legislative, executive, judicial - could have been first introduced by Ukrainian hetman Pylyp Orlyk in his Constitution of...

The editors of Edward Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey published in 1839 in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers described the events...

"Not many people know that there was a second group of firefighters who were sent to Kyiv Hospital. It is extremely sad that the...

March 8, 2025. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer.  For centuries, historians and linguists...

Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Here is his description of Kyiv around the year 1650: "Kiow, otherwise called...

Volunteers place impromptu feeders for pets in the destroyed blocks so cats and dogs don't starve to death

Alex Trebek was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, on July 22, 1940, the son of George Edward Trebek (né Terebeychuk), a chef who had emigrated from Ukraine as...

"Scythia is a quadrangle, two sides of which reach the sea, and the line running inland is the same length as the one that...

"When Kyivan Rus, a powerful new state to the north of the Byzantine Empire, accepted Christianity as its official religion in 988, the aristocracy...

Primary Chronicle for the year 1054 states: “Yaroslav, Great Prince of Rus', passed away. While he was yet alive, he admonished his sons with...

The first known ruler of Kyiv, Dir, is mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle and a Redaction of the Novgorod First Chronicle. Although the...

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