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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...
Grandiose Royal Scythian Funeral Feast Uncovered in Ukraine
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,...
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Bucha Massacre proves Holodomor was Genocide too
The horrific acts of atrocities committed by the Russians in 2022 can serve as a proof of two facts: Ukrainians are different from RussiansIt has...
Herodotus Measures Taurica/Crimea: Comparison with Italian Iapygia
“We have more compelling evidence of Herodotus's advance east of Pontic Olbia. Herodotus begins his account of Scythia's geography from the northwestern coast of...
Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan where Scythian Gold Pectoral was found
A large Scythian Royal Kurgan of the 4th century BC situated near Pokrova in the Dnipro oblast of Ukraine was excavated in 1971 by...
Sculptured birds on Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan
"Royal Scythia, Greece, Kyiv Rus" book has some insights about Gorden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla.
How Peter I of Russia capitulated to Turks: Pruth Campaign
After the Poltava defeat, the wounded Charles XII of Sweden and Hetman Mazepa of Ukraine stayed in Moldova which was under the protection of...
The Rus army used ‘Sulaymani’ swords, – 10th-century Persian explorer ibn...
According to Wikipedia, Ahmad ibn Rustah was a tenth-century Muslim Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta, Isfahan in the Abbasid Caliphate. He wrote a geographical compendium known as the Kitāb al-A‘lāq al-Nafīsa ('Book...
Hetman Mazeppa’s Legendary Sabre mentioned by Lord Byron: stolen by Moscow,...
This done, Mazeppa spread his cloak, And laid his lance beneath his oak, Felt if his arms in order good The long day's march had well withstood...
Kateryna Yushchenko – inventor of Address Programming Language (APL) and Pointers....
Plankalkul was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer. It designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between...
Kyiv Rus’ gold cloisonné enamel medallions dating to 1000-1200 AD in...
Title: Chain with Birds and Geometric MotifsDate: 1000–1200Geography: Made in Kyiv (probably), UkraineCulture: Kyivan Rus’Medium: Cloisonné enamel, goldDimensions: Overall: 4 9/16 x 15/16 x 3/16 in. (11.6 x 2.4 x...
In rural Ukraine, an American rekindles a lost music tradition
Deep in rural Ukraine, a man from North Carolina has returned to his roots, moving to a village with a population of 500...
World-famous painter Ilya Repin portrayed two nations – Ukrainians above, Russians...
The painter is Ukrainian (now officailly according to MetMuseum) Ilya Repin. The upper painting is the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Turkish Sultan,...