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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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In Ukraine, These Stunning Floral Crowns Are In Style
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/ukraine/articles/in-ukraine-these-stunning-floral-crowns-are-in-style/
Ukrainian Cossacks’ Resettling to Kuban by Catherine II was genocide, not...
So, how did Moscow reward the Ukrainian Cossacks for saving its Black Sea Fleet and defeating the Turks? A decade after the event, Dr....
Muscovy-Russia, Ugly Replica of the Golden Horde
Famous travel-blogger of the 18th century Edward Clarke in his bestselling book 'Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey' repeated the facts about Muscovy that...
Lessons for modern-day ‘Chamberlains’ 85 years later
85 years ago, on 30.09.1938, Neville Chamberlain after negotiating with Adolf Hitler proudly proclaimed to have achieved Peace in Our Time. Part of that...
Gold Deer Plaques on Human Skull: Synjavka Scythian barrow in Ukraine
The human skull covered with gold plates of two patterns was found in the central chamber of a Scythian barrow near the village of...
John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery on the cliff....
10th-century Easter Egg from Kyiv Rus discovered in Sweden
"Glazed ceramic Resurrection egg. The egg is made of glazed fired clay. It varies in colour from bright chocolate brown to dark green. The...
John Steinbeck depicts Kyiv after WW2
“War is no new thing to Kiev. Starting with
the raids of the savages from Tartary, it has been a place of war for thousands
of...
Who Was Buried in Alexandropol Kurgan: Skulls from Scythian Royal Barrow
A.E. Liutsenko who excavated Alexandropol kurgan in 1854–55, was the first who preserved the skulls of the people who were buried in it. Unfortunately,...
In 1710 the Ukrainian Cossacks drafted one of Europe’s first state...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
Russian ‘Czar’ title is of Oriental origin, – Marquise de Custine
"The princes who now possess this sacred asylum of oriental despotism call themselves Europeans, because they have chased the Calmucs, their brethren, their...
Sirens Flanking Tree of Life: Gold Enameled Temple Pendant from 11th...
"When Kyivan Rus, a powerful new state to the north of the Byzantine Empire, accepted Christianity as its official religion in 988, the aristocracy...