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Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine
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...
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
“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...
“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]
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...
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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Gold Phiale (Libation Bowl) from Solokha Scythian Kurgan
The phiale was found in the Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine.
Hryhorii Skovoroda: How Russia Tried to Appropriate ‘Ukrainian Socrates’
Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722 – 1794) was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was a poet, a teacher, and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations...
Achilles and Ukraine
“Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,” is the opening line of the Iliad. Achilles was the warrior who became the very symbol...
Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan in Ukraine could be the...
Scholars date Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan to the first half of the 4th century B.C. The woman buried it it was given a very sumptious...
Kyiv Royal Golden-Domed Rotunda-Chamber of the 12th century: ‘The Song of...
According to the Ukrainian Wikipedia page Kyiv Rotunda, the foundations of a large building of the 12th century situated across from the Church of...
Russia’s war economy is a ticking financial time bomb now, –...
The most important thing President Putin tries to impress on Ukraine’s Western friends is that he has time on his side, so the only...
Ukrainian Donbas is frontline ‘battle lab’ where Russia prepares for war...
"Along the 190-mile Line of Contact, the Russian-backed forces have more than 470 tanks and hundreds of artillery pieces and rocket launchers. All are under...
Russia and Ukraine are locked in a legal dispute over ancient...
"AMSTERDAM — Ukraine and Russia are locked in another heated battle over Crimea. But this dispute is playing out in court, with the two neighbors locked...
Trump’s demand for rare earth from Ukraine draws criticism worldwide and...
“We have to get something. We can’t continue to pay this money,” U.S. president said as quoted by Politico in Trump demands $500B in...
13-year-old Ukrainian Oleksiy Sereda became the youngest European champion in the...
"Ukraine's 13-year-old diving sensation Oleksii Sereda has become the sport's youngest-ever European champion after winning 10m platform gold in Kiev. Sereda is three months younger...