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Scythian Language: Proto-Indo-European, NOT Iranian
Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...
Scythian Supreme Goddess Tabiti: The only Indo-Aryan female Fire Deity
Herodotus According to Greek historian Herodotus, the Scythian religion centered on seven divinities. He described them in the following way: The only gods the Scythians try...
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’
Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...
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Indo-Scythian King Kanishka and the First Crucible ‘Damascus Steel’ Sword
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Iphigenia in Tauris, modern-day Crimea
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Yaroslav the Wise’s Skeleton is ‘Undoubtedly of Local Origin’: Facial reconstruction...
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Dnieper River in the 5th century B.C. Description by Herodotus
"The fourth river is the Borysthenes, which is the largest after the Ister , and in our opinion the most productive, not only of...
Ukrainian Cossacks – the power of Freedom. (Quotes from a Harvard...
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Persian Cavalry Raid Across Scythia: Darius receives ‘Bird, Mouse, Frog, 5...
“A third of the time allocated by Darius for the entire Scythian campaign had already passed. Another 21 days were still needed to be...
Doodle celebrates the renowned Ukrainian writer, historian, and translator Pateleimon Kulish
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Joe Rogan’s remark on Ukraine is a disgrace to Martial Arts:...
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John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery on the cliff....
Parthian Empire once divided the world with Roman Empire. The Parthians...
"The Parthians, in whose hands the empire of the east now is, having divided the world, as it were, with the Romans, were originally exiles...
German-Soviet Joint Military Parade in Brest-Litovsk in 1939: Symbolic truce after...
Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote: "......