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Battle Axes of Kyiv Rus: Nearly perfect efficiency ahead of time

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“Ancient Rus’ blacksmiths of the 10th-13th centuries fully mastered all the basic technical techniques of iron processing and determined the technical level of village...

Kyiv Was Powerful Capital City in the 9th Century Already: Vikings...

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Soviet renowned Academician Borys Rybakov in his groundbreaking monograph the Handicrafts of Ancient Rus (1948), demonstrated the economic superiority of Kyiv Rus to contemporary...

Iranians are Ukrainians, a recent DNA study shows

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Why does a picture of a defiant Iranian girl have the vibes of a Ukrainian girl? Especially if one substitutes the picture of the...

Kyiv Rus’ Influence on Czech, Bohemia Jewelry Ornamentation: 10th-century Rhyton with...

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“The second bullhorn from the Black Barrow, embossed and engraved, is of a completely different nature. Its silver mount is completely covered with a...

Ukrainian Language is Ancient, Chess-Elegant, LEGO-Logical, – an American Linguistic Professor

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American professor John McWhorter, who teaches linguistics at Columbia University, published a study that caused a sensation in the scientific world. Having studied over 200...

10th-century Rus’ Helmet from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Assyrian prototype?

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“The "Gifts of the East," which appeared in large quantities in the Rus’ regions in the 7th and 8th centuries, are not limited to...

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Scythians and Cannabis: making clothes, steam-bathing, getting high

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Did you know that when you say 'Cannabis' you 'speak Scythian'? If you did not know that, now you do, because according to Wikipedia,...

Firefly Aerospace to Build Production Facility at Cape Canaveral Launch Site

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"Over the next two years, Firefly Aerospace completed hot-fire tests of its first and second stage engines, opened a research and development center...

The Crimean War started on March 27, 1854: Parallels to current...

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The experience of the Crimean War of 1854 has several striking analogies with Putin’s war on Ukraine that started in 2014 with the invasion...

In rural Ukraine, an American rekindles a lost music tradition

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Deep in rural Ukraine, a man from North Carolina has returned to his roots, moving to a village with a population of 500...

Ukraine-Born Inventor Creates World’s Most Powerful and Efficient Engine

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Kiev Politechnical Institute graduate Dr. Nickolay Shkolnik moved to the USA where he founded his own company and where together with his son...

Should Ukraine return to Crimea its historic name of Taurica?

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Wikipedia quote: "Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period (16-19th c.), Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe......

Ukrainian Village Named The Hottest in the U.S. by the Redfin

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It is "tranquil", - quotes the Chicagoist.com. "Just as typical Ukrainian spirit" - we would add

At stake in Ukraine is the direction of human history, –...

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Feb., 2022. AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of history and the nature of humanity: is change...

Nearly all Russian great writers were of foreign descent, – Fyodor...

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Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...

The Rus army used ‘Sulaymani’ swords, – 10th-century Persian explorer ibn...

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According to Wikipedia, Ahmad ibn Rustah was a tenth-century Muslim Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta, Isfahan in the Abbasid Caliphate. He wrote a geographical compendium known as the Kitāb al-A‘lāq al-Nafīsa ('Book...

Battle Scenes including Amazon Female Warrior on Gold Scabbard from Chertomlyk...

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The scabbard was recently exhibited in the Met Museum and here is how the Met Museum described it: "In the main frieze is a battle...

Lord Byron’s one of the most famous poems devoted to Ukrainian...

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Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819. It is based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan...