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Scythian Cavalry Heavy Armor: What museum recreation revealed
Gladkivshchina Kurgan #2 In 1982, researchers explored a burial site unique in its composition and state of preservation near the village of Gladkovshchina in central...
Scythian Top-Rank Warlords on Gaimanov Golden Bowl: Their faces, outfits &...
The famous 4th-century BC gilded silver bowl decorated with reliefs of elite Scythian warriors was discovered in the Gaimanova Mohyla Royal kurgan in the...
Scythian Armor Technology: Unique 5th-century BC iron scaly full protecive suit...
1976 December issue of The UNESCO Courier had the following passage: “How Scythian horsemen of 2,500 years ago dressed, and the kind of equipment they...
Scythians in The Iliad of Homer: ‘Most decent men alive’
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Anacharsis: Scythian Frugality and Wisdom
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Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine
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...
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Leo Tolstoy on how Russia tried to subdue the Caucasus. Quote.
"Sado, taking a pick-axe and spade, had gone with his relatives to dig a grave for his son. The old grandfather sat by the...
Independent Ukraine is Crucial for European Security, – Zbigniew Brzezinski
In 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former US National Security Advisor, wrote 'The Grand Chessboard' where he described the importance of independent Ukraine. "Geopolitical pivots are...
How China Used Ukrainian Missiles to Improve Its Own Nuclear Arsenal...
Given all the different vectors through which rocket and missile technology are flowing from Ukraine to China, it’s reasonable to say that Ukraine...
Catherine II brought German Mennonites to Ukraine. A century later they...
Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the excommunicated Roman Catholic chaplain Menno Simons (1496–1561) from Friesland, part of the Holy Roman...
‘Poetic talent existed in my father’s Ukrainian family,’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s...
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Cossack Country-Ukraine as seen by Syrian chronicler Paul of Aleppo in...
Paul of Aleppo (1627 - 1669) was a Syrian archdeacon, traveler, and writer. He accompanied his father, Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch, on a journey from Aleppo...
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Someone dressed them up like that. Someone bought them the inventory - the toy gun. But where did they see an execution like that?...
Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: A Pendant Earring
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Catherine II, the butcher of the Polish Commonwealth: Suvorov troops and...
The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...
Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Bracelets from Mezin in Ukraine May Be...
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How Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones became an...
John Paul Jones, a Revolutionary War hero known as the father of the U.S. Navy, left a trait in Ukraine's history. In his memoirs,...