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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...

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...

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...

The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...

Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...

Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...

Priscus of Panium was an Eastern Roman diplomat and Greek historian who, in 448/449 AD, accompanied Maximinus, the head of the Byzantine embassy representing Emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450), on a diplomatic mission to the...

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...

The man who would open space to humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 (30 Dec 1906 old calendar), in Zhitomir,...

Vsevolod Sviatoslavych (Bui-Tur), (died 1196) was a Kyiv Rus’ prince. He took part in numerous battles against the Cumans, including the campaigns led by his brother, Igor Sviatoslavych,...

"...Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, learned the lesson up close and personal. In 1953 he travelled to Crimea with his son-in-law, the prominent Soviet journalist...

In 1884, Polish archaeologist Godfryd Ossowski explored the great kurgan near the present-day city of Zvenigorodka, some 150km to the south of Kyiv. But...

"In 1492, the year Christopher Columbus landed on the Caribbean island he named San Salvador and King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella signed a decree...

Bill Mosienko (1921-1994) was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black...

Sisowath Sirik Matak (22 January 1914 – 21 April 1975) was a Cambodian politician and member of the Cambodian royal family, under the House of Sisowath....

Alexeev A. Y. in the "Unknown griffins of Scythian Alexandropol kurgan" scientific article writes that during the excavations of 1854, a fragment of leather...