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Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows
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...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
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...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
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....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
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...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
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“The Russian is Asiatic, with no regard for human life, barbarian...
"The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an...
Dancing ‘Aliens’: Silver figurines from Martynivka Treasure in Ukraine
Martynivka Treasure is a hoard consisting of 116 silver items (weighing about 3.3 kg) found in 1909, in the village of Martynivka, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. The treasure is...
Oksana Baiul, the first Winter Olympic champion of independent Ukraine, 1994
Known as the “Swan of Odessa,” Baiul was one of the most graceful and artistically accomplished skaters in the history of the sport....
Mr Jones film highlights Welsh ‘unknown hero’ Gareth Jones – BBC
The film includes graphic depictions of the famine and details Soviet efforts to suppress the truth. It is inspired by the true story of Gareth...
Scythian Artifacts from ancient Taurida (Crimea) finally returned to Ukraine from...
AMSTERDAM, June 9, 2023 - Ancient Crimean gold artifacts that were on show abroad should be returned to Ukraine, and not to Crimea which...
Hitler and Keitel at “Werwolf” headquarters near Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1942
Per Wikipedia, Werwolf was the easternmost Headquarters used by Hitler in person. Hitler went there three times; his first stint, which lasted from July...
World’s Oldest Gold in the Wealthiest Burial of the 5th Millennium...
In October 1972, near the modern-day city of Varna in Bulgaria a vast Copper Age necropolis dating to the 5th Millennium BC was discovered...
Elk in Scythian Art of Borysthenites/Dnieper River Farmers: Proto-Slavs’ Totem Animal?
“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...
Scythian Vessel with Hunting Scenes from Solokha Kurgan
The vessel has two hunting scenes in relief. In the first scene, two horseriders hunt a lion. The left horserider is shooting a bow,...
Jim Morrison in Ukrainian embroidery shirt presented to him by Andy...
Andrew Warhola was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889–1942) and Julia (née Zavacká, 1892–1972), whose first child was born in their homeland and died...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the tenseness would not...