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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...

“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...

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...

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...

https://youtu.be/37oOKaBMQyM Joint Ukrainian-American Scythian Kurgan Project The initial excavations of the Alexandropol kurgan in 1852–1856 left many questions unanswered, such as its date, design, inner structure,...

“On the way to our hotel we noticed, as everyone does, that the Ukrainian girls are very pretty, mostly blond, with fine womanly figures. They have...

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...

The full story behind John Steinbeck's quote can be read here. Why borscht is a Ukrainian meal and not Russian is explained here. Borscht...

Waiver: All nations are equal and the Finns are one of the most advanced nations in Europe these days. The reason for writing this...

“Having transported his army across the Thracian Bosporus via a bridge built by Mandrocles, Darius easily conquered the Thracian tribes and port cities of...

Ateas (ca. 429 BC – 339 BC) was described in Greek and Roman sources as the most powerful king of Scythia. His name also occurs as Atheas, Ateia, Ataias,...

Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia’s war on its western neighbor....

“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...

Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...

"These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching eastward a three days' journey to a river called Panticapes, and northward as far as an eleven...