u-krane.com

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...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

That would explain the letter "Z" his troops use as a mark. Ukraine wishes Putin to repeat the destiry of Zorg and get blown...

S1mple’s teammates were heard laughing and cheering in the background after the Natus Vincere star clutched the round, but the Ukrainian remained remarkably calm...

Ptolemy, the famed Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, in his second most well-known work, Geography (Book 3.5), provides coordinates of the...

A cromlech is a megalithic circle made of large stones arranged vertically, often around a tomb or place of worship. (Stonehenge is the most famous example...

Niketas Choniates was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning...

“Having obtained indisputable data on Herodotus's sea voyage around the Crimean Peninsula, confirming the high accuracy of his measurements, we must return to those...

GitLab, the developer service that aims to offer a full lifecycle DevOps platform, announced that it has raised a $100 million Series D funding...

In his book of wartime memoirs Eisenhower: Crusade in Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower recollects his conversation with Marshal Zhukov, which shocked him: “During our hours on...

Created in 2006, the painting was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021 for $6 698 400.

Prominent Soviet specialist in historical linguistics Academician O. Trubachev (1930-2002) in his ‘Indoarica in the Northern Black Sea Region’ analyzed the names of famous...

Mykola Gogol, Volodymyr the Great, the Kyivan Rus, Anne of Kyiv—all of this is Ukrainian, but has long been skillfully and fraudulently presented...

Harvard Professor Richard Pipes starts a new chapter of his book "Russia Under the Old Regime" with the following quote of Sigismund Herberstein, a...