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Russian Occupiers in Ukraine: The Walking Dead Zombies, The Lord Of...
Zombies Comparing Russian soldiers to "zombies" is a common metaphor in the Ukrainian media and among the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine...
Scythian Heraclean Bow: Stone Inscription of Archery Record Found in Ukraine
Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...
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...
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John Steinbeck on Ukrainian bee farm
"We moved on to a flowered meadow where there were hundreds of beehives, and a little tent where the beekeeper lived. The air was...
Wayne Gretzky during his ‘United For Ukraine’ speech: My Grandmother always...
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Kyiv Rus vs. Golden Horde: Catherine II’s curious details about the...
After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...
The Rus were the Tauroscythians whose native land was Taurica/ Crimea....
The name Rus is first directly attested to in the 'Life of St. George of Amastris' written by Ignatios the Deacon (d. after 845)....
How Australia Welcomed ‘Sky Monster’ – AN-225 Mriya
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Ancient gold coin from Bosporan Kingdom in Crimea sells for a...
"The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise...
Zoroastrian Circular Cities: Darabgerd, Gur, Balkh
The city of Darabgerd was one of the most famous of the Persian cities. Its ruins are located 9 km southwest of the modern...
‘God Pan playing flute and two goats’ on Scythian sword handle...
In the triangle on the sword’s handle, there is a representation of the god Pan playing on his syringa (Pan flute or Pan pipes)...
Scythian Amazons’ Skincare
Herodotus in his 'Histories' wrote: "But the women pour water into a mixture of cypress, cedar, and frankincense wood, which they have ground...
Chainmail Armor of Kyiv Rus: Ahead of Western Europe and Vikings...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a prominent Soviet archaeologist and historian who represented the Soviet Academy of Sciences at the Columbia University Bicentennial in...
Athenian-type helmet from Scythian barrow in Ukraine
In 1845, near the village of Zvenyhorodka in the Cherkasy oblast of Ukraine, a notable barrow was opened. The barrow was different from the...