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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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Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even...
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,...
How Russia brought about World War Two
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles limited the German Army number to 100 thousand men and forbade Germany from producing or purchasing...
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...
“The Russian is Asiatic, with no regard for human life, barbarian...
"The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an...
Rare Griffins on Frieze Vessel from Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan
The frieze vessel was found in the same chamber as the priestess. In the first scene, one lion-headed and one eagle-headed griffins tear a...
In August of 1937, Moscow demolished 12th-century St. Michael’s Cathedral in...
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is situated on the central hill of Kyiv overlooking the Dnieper River and the northern part of Ukraine's capital. It was...
Serpent Goddess and Progenitress of the Scythian Nation: Gold frontlet from...
"On the S. side of the river, in the district of Melitopol, government of Taurida, is the barrow Tsymbalka near Bélozérka. As usual, the...
Ukrainian who played the most crucial role in creating the first...
Atomic Heritage Foundation has the following entry: "George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemist.He joined the Manhattan Project in late January 1944, leaving...
Situla from Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan
Situla (plural situlae), from the Latin word for 'bucket' or 'pail', is the term in archaeology and art history for a variety of elaborate bucket-shaped vessels...
Scythian Torques/ Gryvnas
The torques or gryvnas were the symbols of high office in the Scythian world. These adornments were worn by both men and women of...
Unique Royal Hat of a Rus ruler from a barrow near...
The hat was discovered in 1877 by archaeologist Samokvasov in the same barrow as the shirt mentioned in the previous article. The hat is...