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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...

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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...

"Daryna Kossar is a visual artist and a food photographer who creates amazing illustrations using fruits, flower petals, veggies and other materials. Her creations include...

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...

American professor of literature Joseph Campbell in his famous book The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology shares quite an interesting observation on the culture of the area and...

According to Wikipedia, "Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part...

Finger-ring, Kyivan Rus' / Kyivan Rus', Ukraine, Street of the Three Saints | The British Museum Images Silver finger-ring; bezel a cast disc; nielloed foliate...

"There was one more important test flight as well as demonstration left to be accomplished, namely a long journey across the country. Until then...

"Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man who wouldn't be...

"We learn that “the Russians” suffered twenty-seven million losses before taking Berlin. Meanwhile, there is scant reference to the fact Ukraine saw far more of...

"It was one of the ancient world's greatest battles, pitting a Carthaginian army commanded by the general Hamilcar against a Greek alliance for control...

Anna Muzychuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been...