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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...
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...
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Ya'qubi (died 897/8), also referred to as al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim Geographer born in Baghdad. Introduction to a recent publication of his work states...
Ilya Repin: Only Ukrainian and Parisian women know how to dress with...
Ilya Repin was born in 1844 in the town of Chuguev in what is now Kharkiv oblast of Ukraine. Historically, the region was known...
The US has earned more already off Russia-Ukraine war than what...
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Tauric Chersonesus in Crimea vandalized by Russians in the 18th century,...
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Anatoly Dyatlov was pressured by Moscow to proceed with the Chornobyl...
In 2011, Fakty-Ukraine published an interview with Boris Gorbachev, a nuclear physicist from Kyiv. In it, he says the following: "I could not find...
Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival
Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...
American Dr. Gale, Chornobyl Firefighters, Bone Marrow Transplants
Adam Higginbotham in his prize-winning Midnight in Chernobyl writes the following: "At forty, Gale was a hematologist at the UCLA Medical Center and a...
Israel Zangwill: Russia was largely responsible for the Anti-Jewish pogroms in...
Israel Zangwill Commends New Republic's Attitude Toward the Jews in Ukraine (A letter from Israel Zangwill, noted writer and President of the Jewish Territorial...
Injustice towards Sergei Korolev after Gagarin’s first man into space flight
Academician Boris Chertok in his three-volume memoirs Rockets and People translated into English and published by NASA's History Division, recollected: "It grieved us when we...
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...
Hohol, Ukrainian Cossacks’ famous haircut was worn by a Kyiv ruler...
"The distinctive mark of a Black Sea Cossack, borne by the lower order among them, of a braided lock from the crown of the...
Lenin created an ‘avatar’ of Ukraine after suppressing true Ukrainian State
Harvard History Professor Richard Pipes in his The Formation of the Soviet Union provided the timetable of how the Bolsheviks addressed 'the Ukrainian question': "The first...