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Herodotus gave the most detailed description of Scythia in his work written about 480–420 BC. Most likely, the Greek historian made a visit to...

Priscus of Panium was an Eastern Roman diplomat and Greek historian who, in 448/449 AD, accompanied Maximinus, the head of the Byzantine embassy representing Emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450), on a diplomatic mission to the...

Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages ​​(some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...

Soviet Academician Borys Rybakov, in his monograph ‘Handicraft of Ancient Rus’, wrote in 1948: “Funeral rites of the Middle Dnieper region in the 9th-10th centuries...

Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...

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

As can be seen in the title image, the horserider on the Solokha comb was portrayed wearing wide trousers known also as anaxurides. The...

It is situated right in the center of Kyiv, on the island amidst Dnieper river which divides Kyiv on two almost equal parts - "left bank Kyiv" and "right...

"Smoke on the Water" - a new painting depicting the sinking of Russian warship "Maskva" in the Black Sea during the Russia's ongoing war...

"Now these accounts of Akhmil and the Cossacks, which we have so distinctly commemorated, were collected with the utmost care; and noted by me...

Quotes below are from "The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999" by Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing year should remove possible accusation...

"In the daytime, however, the first thing to meet the Macedonians would be the terrifying sight of Scythians and Bactrians with their shaggy faces...

Per Wikipedia, Werwolf was the easternmost Headquarters used by Hitler in person. Hitler went there three times; his first stint, which lasted from July...

"The mythological figure of Cossack Mamai.. is a reflection of the most typical traits and mentality of the Ukrainian Cossack – a combination of strong...

The quotes below are taken from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb by American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes: "On April...

"in 1994 the late Lennart Meri, then president of Estonia, gave a prophetic speech in Hamburg. The Kremlin had just growled that the problems...

Veterans fighting for Ukraine’s foreign legion label president a ‘coward’ who won’t stand up to Putin. US military volunteers fighting alongside Ukraine’s armed forces have...

'The Book of Ceremonies' of Constantine Porphyrogennetos published by Brill in 2017 has the following introduction: "Constantine VII (905-959) was the grandson of Basil I,...