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Zombies Comparing Russian soldiers to "zombies" is a common metaphor in the Ukrainian media and among the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine...

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...

"Where can we look for the most ancient references to our Rus, that is, to the Rus’ people? We will not discuss the Biblical people...

According to Wikipedia, a Chalcidian type helmet was a helmet made of bronze and was worn by ancient warriors of the Hellenic world, especially...

Ukrainian Village House There is a hall, which is a combination storeroom and entrance.From there one goes into the kitchen, a white plaster room, with...

According to the Wikipedia page, "On 5 January 2019, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, signed the Tomos that officially recognized and established...

Per Wikipedia, 'The Tale of Igor's Campaign' is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. Britannica calls the poem 'The...

In his book of wartime memoirs Eisenhower: Crusade in Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower recollects his conversation with Marshal Zhukov, which shocked him: “During our hours on...

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

In 2020, Google created a Doodle honoring the Ukrainian embroidered shirt in commemoration of International Vyshyvanka Day: "Held each year on the third Thursday of May, this...

The vessel has two hunting scenes in relief. In the first scene, two horseriders hunt a lion. The left horserider is shooting a bow,...

The Drevnost' Malorossiiskogo Yazyka was published in 1880 in Odesa. It is available in the original language at Archive.org (In case the link...

Adam Higginbotham in his prize-winning Midnight in Chernobyl writes the following: "At forty, Gale was a hematologist at the UCLA Medical Center and a...

Congratulations to Sergei Loznitsa on winning the Best Director Prize (Prix de la mise-en-scène) in the selection "Un Certain Regard" (a parallel competition for films...