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...

Grandiose Royal Scythian Funeral Feast Uncovered in Ukraine

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https://youtu.be/37oOKaBMQyM Joint Ukrainian-American Scythian Kurgan Project The initial excavations of the Alexandropol kurgan in 1852–1856 left many questions unanswered, such as its date, design, inner structure,...

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Goal by Mykolenko voted best in FC Everton’s season 21/22

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The win in that game secured for Everton its presence in Premier Leage for the next season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3V-eDPQE4c

Bees’ survival is crucial for humankind. This single invention by Ukrainian...

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"We all depend on the survival of bees,” – states the United Nations explaining the reason for designating May 20 as World’s Bee Day....

The Russians of our times are the worthy children of the...

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"The social, intellectual, and political state of present Russia is the result, and, so to speak, the resume, of the reigns of Ivan IV.,...

Scythian sword in golden scabbard from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan

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Moscow’s occupation of Kyiv in 1918. Order to shell churches and...

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Harvard Professor Richard Pipes in his 1997 revised edition of The Formation of the Soviet Union: "The activities of the Ukrainian Rada made it clear that...

Scythians had enormous stature and were a terrifying sight for enemies

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Vettersfelde Gold Fish Plaque: Ties to Cyzicus and Royal Scythians

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Denis Topal of the National Archaeology And History Museum Of Moldova: "The overall shape of the ‘fish’ looks like a member of the genus...

Mysterious inscription of the 10th century Rus. Possible similarity with Phoenician...

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Ibn al-Nadim (died 995) was an important Muslim bibliographer and biographer of Baghdad who compiled the encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist (The Book Catalogue). His work contains an interesting passage on the Rus in a...

Mykola Pymonenko whose works inspired Kazimir Malevich. His Hopak painting was...

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Mykola Pymonenko was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. Pymonenko is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of...

Not Iranians. Scythians originated in Ukraine [Yamna + Trypillia Cultures], –...

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In 2025, an article by geneticists Lehti Saag, Olga Utevska, and a number of Ukrainian archaeologists was published ‘North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine...

‘Monkey and Cranes’ Gold Relief Overlay from Lytoi Scythian Kurgan in...

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