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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...

American professor John McWhorter, who teaches linguistics at Columbia University, published a study that caused a sensation in the scientific world. Having studied over 200...

In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "I had several hobbies. For a time I was making electrical batteries and...

Feb., 2022. AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of history and the nature of humanity: is change...

April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany...

It has become "fashionable" to talk about corruption in Ukraine and there have been multiple reasons for that. There have been even claims made...

'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,...

"When he was fifteen years old, in 1030, Harald fought in the Battle of Stiklestad together with his half-brother Olaf Haraldsson (later Saint Olaf). Olaf sought to reclaim...

3 - Bronze mirror with iron handle; 4 - Wooden grinder; 5 - iron clasp; 6 - stones for sling; 7 - stone plate; 8 - iron knife with bone handle; 9 - iron handles; 10 - spike of an iron javelin; 11 - spike of an iron spear.

"The Simpsons” is the best satire of contemporary American culture. For those interested in Mennonites involved in mass culture, it is also a case...

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...

The full story behind John Steinbeck's quote can be read here. Why borscht is a Ukrainian meal and not Russian is explained here. Borscht...

"A titan of Ancient History and one of the greats of twentieth-century historical scholarship, Rostovtzeff" (Yale quote) observed: “There is a striking similarity between...