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Stone of Tmutarakan was discovered on the Taman Peninsula in 1792. It was the time when the famous English traveler Edward D. Clarke was passing through...

Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...

The London Gazette - Wikipedia is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and...

Wikipedia page states that the Chernyakhiv Archaeological Culture “territorially replaced its predecessor, the Zarubintsy culture. Both cultures were discovered by the Czech archaeologist Vikentiy...

The ancient jug was found in 1899 during excavations near the village of Romashky in the Kyiv region by the prominent Czech archaeologist Vikentii...

“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...

The quotes below are taken from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb by American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes: "On April...

Iryna Vavilova and Tetyna Artemenko from the Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine in their 2009 article ‘The ancient cultural framework of...

Academician B. Rybakov in his 1979 book ‘Scythia of Herodotus’: “After half a century of destructive Greco-Persian wars, during which the many thousands of armies...

Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. One of Voltaire's best-known histories is History of Charles XII (1731). The quotes below are taken from...

Weighing 6 tons, it is located at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yaroslav the Wise married Ingegerd Olofsdotter, daughter of Olof Skötkonung, the king of Sweden...

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

According to Wikipedia, "despite their common name, guinea pigs are not native to Guinea, nor are they closely related biologically to pigs, and the...

The title illustration and the one below were found in the book 'Zhivopisnaya Rossiya', vol. 5 that was published in 1897. The illustration below...

The editors of Edward Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey published in 1839 in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers described the events...

The 'Fiddler on the Roof' can help one to get a sense of what it was like to live in the Pale of Settlement,...

al-Kindi (801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab...

"An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where some mysterious attackers came from during...