Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine

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https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

Richest Scythian Female Burial in Ukraine: Priestess-Queen in Griffins Headdress with...

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https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska

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“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

The Rus are Slavs, wrote Ibn Khordadbeh before 860 AD. What...

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“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

55th Anniversary of the Scythian Gold Pectoral discovery! [June 21, 1971]

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https://youtu.be/A7szL7wiBuY Discovery On June 21, 1971, while working inside the Scythian Kurgan, the head of the expedition, Borys Mozolevsky, began clearing the dromos, where a large...

Wine Preferences of Royal Scythians: Story of nearly 500 Greek Amphoras...

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https://youtu.be/wATY2fhj5Zc During the 1855 excavations of the Central Tomb of Alexandropol Kurgan, the archaeologists discovered a niche in the western wall that was filled with...

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Scythian Nation was possibly older than the Egyptian one

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We all read that the Scythians were some "Iranian tribes" that moved to the North around the ninth century B.C. Well, that is a...

Ukrainian Zaporizhian Cossack Legendary Warrior: Cameroon Silver Coin

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In 2021, The Republic of Cameroon minted 500 coins with the image of a Ukrainian Zaporizhian Cossack as part of its Legendary Warriors coins...

Russian Orthodox Church was formed by the Golden Horde

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Harvard Professor Richard Pipes stated in his 'Russia Under the Old Regime': "The Golden Age of the Orthodox Church in Russia coincided with Mongol...

Sharp difference exists between Ukrainians and Russians, – Ivan Bunin, the...

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Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried...

Famous Hjortspring Boat Unearthed in Scandinavia Came from Eastern Baltic, 2,400-Year-Old...

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Scythian Heracles and Medusa gold plates from Chmyreva Barrow in Ukraine

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"Harness and cars were decorated with all imaginable metal plates of gold or bronze. Especially important were the frontlets and cheek ornaments on the...

Hryhorii Skovoroda: How Russia Tried to Appropriate ‘Ukrainian Socrates’

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Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722 – 1794) was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was a poet, a teacher, and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations...

The Rus were the Tauroscythians whose native land was Taurica/ Crimea....

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The name Rus is first directly attested to in the 'Life of St. George of Amastris' written by Ignatios the Deacon (d. after 845)....

Ukraine as Major Aim and Battlefield of WW2, – Yale Prof....

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June 20th, 2017. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, I'm going to speak in English. I'm going to speak English, because this is a subject...

Scythian Funeral Cart from Alexandropol Kurgan

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During the summer of 1856, A.E. Liutsenko reported finding the remains of a Scythian funeral cart in the kurgan. Considering its closeness to the...

Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Art from Mezin Paleolithic site in Ukraine....

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American professor of literature Joseph Campbell in his famous book The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology shares quite an interesting observation on the culture of the area and...

Hohol, Ukrainian Cossacks’ famous haircut was worn by a Kyiv ruler...

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"The distinctive mark of a Black Sea Cossack, borne by the lower order among them, of a braided lock from the crown of the...