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Siversky Donets River, not the Don, is the Tanais of Ptolemy...
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...
Sword of Ares: Attila and the Scythian God of War
Herodotus gave the most detailed description of Scythia in his work written about 480–420 BC. Most likely, the Greek historian made a visit to...
Attila the Hun was local to European Scythia/Ukraine: Priscus of Panium’s...
Priscus of Panium was an Eastern Roman diplomat and Greek historian who, in 448/449 AD, accompanied Maximinus, the head of the Byzantine embassy representing Emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450), on a diplomatic mission to the...
Ancient Kyiv Spoke ‘Direct Ancestor’ of the Ukrainian Language, famous linguist...
Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages (some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...
Scythian Farmers, Skoloti, Proto-Slavs, Rus-Ukraine
Soviet Academician Borys Rybakov, in his monograph ‘Handicraft of Ancient Rus’, wrote in 1948: “Funeral rites of the Middle Dnieper region in the 9th-10th centuries...
Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival
Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...
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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...
Ukrainian Village after WW2: John Steinbeck description of 1947
" Shevchenko has never been one of the best farms because its land is not of the first quality, but before the war it...
Zoroastrian Fire Worship and Purification of Metals: How and Where the...
In her PhD dissertation 'Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origin' presented at the University of London (available at Academia.edu), Anna Marie...
Meeting at the Elbe: Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt....
April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany...
FC Liverpool’s guide to Kiev for the Champions’ League Final
"With thousands of Liverpool supporters travelling to Kiev for the Champions League final against Real Madrid on Saturday, we've put together a handy guide...
Ukrainian women at work. As seen by John Steinbeck and Robert...
" Shevchenko has never been one of the best farms because its land is not of the first quality, but before the war it...
Tauroscythians-Rus spoke the Indo-Aryan language. Proper names of ancient Taurica/ Crimea...
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...
Arsacid Dynasty: Aryan Saka/Scythians?
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "since the late 20th century, a growing number of scholars have rejected both the Aryan invasion hypothesis and the use...
Igor Sikorsky assembled his first helicopters while still a student in...
In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "I had several hobbies. For a time I was making electrical batteries and...
Scythian Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogila, Ukraine
Dr. Dmitry Raevsky: "The discovery of this pectoral by the archaeologist from Kyiv B.N.Mozolevskiy in 1971 caused an unprecedented sensation in Scythian studies at...