Elk in Scythian Art of Borysthenites/Dnieper River Farmers: Proto-Slavs’ Totem Animal?

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“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...

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...

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Waterfowl Scythian Pole-Top from Alexandropol Kurgan

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W.H. Chamberlin Eyewitness Account of Holodomor 1932-33 in Ukraine

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Baturyn Massacre in 1708: History of Muscovites mass-murdering Ukrainian population

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Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan in Ukraine could be the...

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This man coined the word ‘Genocide’. Here is Dr Lemkin’s speech...

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Rafał Lemkin was a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing) (Wikipedia). On September...