Amazons, Greeks, Scythians, Saurometae: Herodotus’ alleged visit to Amazons’ capital of...

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“On his return journey , besides Colchis, we can note another region whose narrative conveys a "presence effect." Herodotus several times mentions the city...

Herodotus Measures Black Sea Coast

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“Having obtained indisputable data on Herodotus's sea voyage around the Crimean Peninsula, confirming the high accuracy of his measurements, we must return to those...

Herodotus Measures Taurica/Crimea: Comparison with Italian Iapygia

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“We have more compelling evidence of Herodotus's advance east of Pontic Olbia. Herodotus begins his account of Scythia's geography from the northwestern coast of...

‘Scythian Square’ of Herodotus: Borders of Scythia in the 5th century...

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

Why Scythians chased a hare before the battle with Darius the...

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Renown Scythologyst Dr. Dmitry Raevsky (1941-2004) observed: “There is a curious motif on the gold appliques from Kul-Oba and on the silver appliques from the...

Darius the Great Flees Scythia/Ukraine: Saved by donkeys and the bridge

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“Darius sent a horseman to Idanthyrsos king of the Scythians with this message: "You extraordinary man! Why do you keep fleeing when you certainly...

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Harold Hardrada, Last Viking King, while serving as the commander of...

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Scythian Funeral Cart from Alexandropol Kurgan

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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...

Ukrainian Cossacks’ Songs Added to UNESCO List

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It is UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding List. https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/cossacks-songs-of-dnipropetrovsk-region-01194

Ukrainian language is likely the closest to original Proto-Indo-European language

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Waterfowl Scythian Pole-Top from Alexandropol Kurgan

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Scythian bronze Pole-top: a waterfowl (swan?), 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. Griffins Pole Tops >

The U.S. is violating the Budapest Memorandum by pressuring Ukraine to...

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Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed on December 5, 1994, states: "The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and...

Monument to legendary founders of Kyiv

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"... There were three brothers, Kyi, Shchek, and Khoriv, and their sister was named Lybid. Kyi lived upon the hill where the Borichev trail...

In 1937, 300 Ukrainian poets, writers, and artists were executed in...

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Executed Renaissance was a generation of Ukrainian language poets, writers, and artists of the 1920s and early 1930s who lived in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and who...

Anacharsis, the Scythian philosopher and prince

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Putin strikingly resembles Satan in Medieval Religious Works

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Vitaly Klitschko inducted in the Boxing Hall of Fame

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