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Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

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...

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...

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

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Just outside the city of Klevan in the Rivne oblast in Western Ukraine, a nearly two-mile stretch of private railway has turned the surrounding...

"Not many people know that there was a second group of firefighters who were sent to Kyiv Hospital. It is extremely sad that the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z761ftJkko One of the largest Scythian Royal kurgans, the 18 meter-high Solokha kurgan in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, on the left bank of the...

Not the Onion Material: The Man in the Middle will become the Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World and Will Surpass the Achievements...

Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. One of Voltaire's best-known histories is History of Charles XII (1731). The quotes below are taken from...

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe: "There is nothing in which the...

The frieze vessel was found in the same chamber as the priestess. In the first scene, one lion-headed and one eagle-headed griffins tear a...

The famous The Vikings series actress Katheryn Winnick visited Kyiv and took a picture with Ukrainian flag in front of St. Michael's Cathedral in...

The two birds on the plaque were identified as cranes by Gerhard Friedrich Müller (although others see in them herons which is hard to...

"The battle of Prokhorovka was steeped in Soviet legend (and myth) for many decades. This remained the case until post-Soviet era research revealed the...

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...