Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine

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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...

Richest Scythian Female Burial in Ukraine: Priestess-Queen in Griffins Headdress with...

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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...

Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska

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“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 are Slavs, wrote Ibn Khordadbeh before 860 AD. What...

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

55th Anniversary of the Scythian Gold Pectoral discovery! [June 21, 1971]

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https://youtu.be/A7szL7wiBuY Discovery On June 21, 1971, while working inside the Scythian Kurgan, the head of the expedition, Borys Mozolevsky, began clearing the dromos, where a large...

Wine Preferences of Royal Scythians: Story of nearly 500 Greek Amphoras...

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https://youtu.be/wATY2fhj5Zc During the 1855 excavations of the Central Tomb of Alexandropol Kurgan, the archaeologists discovered a niche in the western wall that was filled with...

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Not canceling 1986 May Parade in Kyiv just 4 days after...

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Adam Higginbotham in his prize-winning Midnight in Chernobyl writes the following: “On Wednesday, April 30—the eve of the annual May Day celebrations, which would fill the...

Trypillia Megasites: The first cities of humanity were not in Mesopotamia,...

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25 years ago by signing Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine gave away the...

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"In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the United States, Russia, and Britain committed “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine”...

Ancient Kyiv Spoke ‘Direct Ancestor’ of the Ukrainian Language, famous linguist...

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Old Scythia of Herodotus. Where was it? How old could it...

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"Old Scythia starts from the Ister and continues, facing the south and south wind, up to the city called Kerkinitis. From there, extending...

Why you should skip Paris and visit Kyiv, – Forbes

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..if you want to visit a city with great architecture, magnificent churches, bustling markets and charming cobblestone streets with significantly fewer tourists, you...

Kyiv in Snow

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Learn of the new facts about Kyiv in Medieval history of Europe in the "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book. For example, how did the Vikings call...

Alexandropol Scythian Royal Kurgan in Ukraine: Chief of ‘Big Barrows’

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A century ago, British academic Dr. E. Minns concluded that the finest of the Scythian kurgans were "about the bend of the Dnépr, near...

Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Art from Mezin Paleolithic site in Ukraine....

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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...

Russia should be renamed back to Muscovy, Ukraine insists

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova made a propaganda statement about the transformation of Ukraine into “anti-Russia.“The man in the bunker (that Zakharova calls...

St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv was created in the 11th century...

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"Designed to rival Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Kyiv's Saint-Sophia Cathedral symbolizes the 'new Constantinople', capital of the Christian principality of Kyiv, which was created...