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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...

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’...

The first known ruler of Kyiv, Dir, is mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle and a Redaction of the Novgorod First Chronicle. Although the...

"We have irrefutable evidence that at least the sword hilts were made in Rus cities. Regarding the peculiar hilts of the swords from...

“Ancient Rus’ blacksmiths of the 10th-13th centuries fully mastered all the basic technical techniques of iron processing and determined the technical level of village...

Soviet renowned Academician Borys Rybakov in his groundbreaking monograph the Handicrafts of Ancient Rus (1948), demonstrated the economic superiority of Kyiv Rus to contemporary...

New York museum has renamed an Edgar Degas painting to recognize its Ukrainian, not Russian, theme, and acknowledged formerly Russia-designated artists as Ukrainian. Barley...

Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...

Twenty-five years ago, Ukraine was the world's third-largest nuclear power, with more warheads than the United Kingdom, France and China combined. The government in...

al-Kindi (801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab...

Joseph Vincent Charyk (September 9, 1920 – September 28, 2016) was widely credited as the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry. He was born...

In Mozolevsky's opinion, the gold torque or gryvna found on the lady in Tovsta Mogyla Barrow is one of the best examples known. The...

There is a striking similarity between Russian dictator Putin and representations of Satan in several famous religious works. For example, the image of Satan...

"In the same neighbourhood as Chertomlyk is the Krasnokutsk barrow. In its mound Zabélin found the fragments of a funeral car broken up and...

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’...

Although this map was published by National Geographic in 1987 and should be commended for marking what is now the present-day Kerch Strait as being controlled...

Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried...

Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...