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Scythian Heraclean Bow: Stone Inscription of Archery Record Found in Ukraine
Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...
Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows
Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
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Scythian Gryvna/Torque from Solokha Royal Barrow
Torque with terminals in the form of lion's heads and filigree plant ornament with colored enamels, 4th century BC. Zaporizhzhia oblast of Ukraine. Excavations...
Infamous ‘Chicken Kyiv Speech’ by George H. W. Bush in Ukrainian...
According to Politico, Harris allies are running Ukraine ads in Pennsylvania and other key states, because it "touts Vice President KAMALA HARRIS’ record on Ukraine...
Mysterious inscription of the 10th century Rus. Possible similarity with Phoenician...
Ibn al-Nadim (died 995) was an important Muslim bibliographer and biographer of Baghdad who compiled the encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist (The Book Catalogue). His work contains an interesting passage on the Rus in a...
Unique Royal Hat of a Rus ruler from a barrow near...
The hat was discovered in 1877 by archaeologist Samokvasov in the same barrow as the shirt mentioned in the previous article. The hat is...
Russian ‘renovation’ of Kyiv St. Sophia frescoes in 1850s became ‘an...
"In the summer of 1843, during Solntsev’s stay in Kyiv, a discovery in the Kyivan St. Sophia led to one of the most thorough...
New ANTONOV Airlines Houston office works with Orbital ATK aerospace giant
" ANTONOV Airlines, which recently established a USA base in Houston, Texas as part of ongoing global expansion, has transported an outsized communications satellite for...
10th-century Rhyton from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Local and Indo-Iranian ornamentation motifs
“The famous silver mounting of a bull's horn from Chernaya Mogila is a magnificent example of flat embossing. A unique example of 10th-century...
Why Scythians chased a hare before the battle with Darius the...
Renown Scythologyst Dr. Dmitry Raevsky (1941-2004) observed: “There is a curious motif on the gold appliques from Kul-Oba and on the silver appliques from the...
He, Who Fights Alone: Volodymyr Monomakh, fearless hunter and Kyiv Rus’...
Volodymyr Monomakh was born a year before the death of Yaroslav “the Wise.” Vsevolod, Volodymyr’s father, was Yaroslav’s youngest son. The Primary Chronicle records...
Scythians and Cannabis: making clothes, steam-bathing, getting high
Did you know that when you say 'Cannabis' you 'speak Scythian'? If you did not know that, now you do, because according to Wikipedia,...