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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 Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) was a diplomat, writer, historian, and member of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Council. He was most noted for his extensive writing on...

Antonov Airlines transported two tracked crushing machines from @EMA_Airport in the UK to Franceville Airport in Gabon in an AN-124-100. Watch the...

The scabbard was recently exhibited in the Met Museum and here is how the Met Museum described it: "In the main frieze is a battle...

The burial of the Scythian pair, husband and wife was found in the Ternopil region in Ukraine. It dates to circa 1,000 B.C. Professor...

The sheath was first described for international audience in the "Scythians and Greeks" book by E. Minns published in 1913. Below is a drawing...

In the previous article, we quoted a famous British writer John Evelyn whose property Peter I destroyed while living in it for three months. Notably, John...

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Ihor Sykorski - the father of helicopter engineering. Assembled his first two trial helicopters while still living in his native Kiev. He also engineered...

The gorytos (bow-and-arrow holder) discovered in one of Scythian Royal Kurgans in Ukraine puzzled the scholars who analyzed it. Because although it dates to...

In 1945, American war correspondent Edgar Snow visited Ukraine and wrote: “It was not until I went on a sobering journey into this twilight of...

Len will play a big role in the Kings' playoff chase, assuming the NBA season resumes with Sacramento still in contention. That isn't where Len...

Working against the clock to build weapons that might end a long and bloody war strained life at Los Alamos but also heightened it…...