Gelon-Bilsk Grandiose Scythian Fortress in Central Ukraine: Account of Herodotus

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“In exploring Herodotus' route through the northern Scythian regions, it is necessary to touch upon the detailed description of the city of Gelon in...

Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Places the Father of History visited

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“Without repeating what has already been said about Herodotus's brief excursions around Olbia (Cape Hippola, the sanctuary of Demeter, Hylaea, the mouth of the...

Darius the Great’s Way from Persian Susa to Scythia: Account of...

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“The campaign began in Susa, deep in the Persian Empire. Herodotus says nothing about the Persians' movement through Asia. The army was supposed to...

Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Following in Darius the Great’s footsteps?

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"What was Herodotus' goal in undertaking a journey to the northern shore of Pontus ? What cities known to us does he mention? Where...

Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Why the Father of History made the...

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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...

Siversky Donets River, not the Don, is the Tanais of Ptolemy...

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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...

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Chuck Palahniuk of Ukrainian descent

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk

Scythian Physiognomy

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The images are of the fist two warriors portrayed on vessel from the Gaimanova Mogila kurgan. First, you may want to read about the...

Ukrainian Donbas is frontline ‘battle lab’ where Russia prepares for war...

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"Along the 190-mile Line of Contact, the Russian-backed forces  have more than 470 tanks and hundreds of artillery pieces and rocket launchers. All are under...

Taiho, arguably the greatest Sumo wresler of all time, was of...

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According to Wikipedia, Taihō Kōki - (Іва́н Бори́шко, Ivan Boryshko; May 29, 1940 – January 19, 2013) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the...

Water ice in the Korolev crater on Mars

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"The stunning Korolev crater in the northern lowlands of Mars is filled with ice all year round owing to a trapped layer of cold Martian air...

Pablo Picasso in Ukrainian Embroidery Shirt/ Vyshyvanka

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His first wife who was Ukrainian presented it to him. See other famous people in this traditional Ukrainian attire >

Outstanding Ukrainian Planes

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-  Antonov An-2 recently has been included in the Guiness Book of Records as the only plane that's been in production for 70 years!! Unfortunately, some countries like North...

Ukrainian Honesty vs Russian Thievery

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It has become "fashionable" to talk about corruption in Ukraine and there have been multiple reasons for that. There have been even claims made...

Kyiv Royal Golden-Domed Rotunda-Chamber of the 12th century: ‘The Song of...

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According to the Ukrainian Wikipedia page Kyiv Rotunda, the foundations of a large building of the 12th century situated across from the Church of...

Igor Sikorsky’s ‘Ilya Muromets Kyivsky’ WW1 plane was World’s First Strategic...

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"I want to recommend urgently the speedy construction of the new type of huge bomber.” "I have no question in my mind that you are...

How Peter I of Russia capitulated to Turks: Pruth Campaign

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After the Poltava defeat, the wounded Charles XII of Sweden and Hetman Mazepa of Ukraine stayed in Moldova which was under the protection of...

‘Northern’ Clothing of the Kushan, Parthian, and Sassanian Empires Elites

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American Art Historian John M. Rosenfield wrote in his 'Dynastics Arts of the Kushans': "As carefully depicted by the sculptors, the clothing worn by...