Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial
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·April 1, 2025tokai
lurk2
> A kurgan is a type of tumulus (Burial mound) constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons, and horses. Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into much of Central Asia and Eastern, Southeast, Western, and Northern Europe during the third millennium BC.
facile3232
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Hnrobert42
Whoa! Lot of hostility there. You know most of the people responsible for that are dead, right??
facile3232
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SirFatty
You could try Better Help, they have people available to help with anger management.
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dr_dshiv
Lots of Greek colonies around Crimea [1], but I had no idea they settled so far inland.
tokai
Mykolaiv is not far inland. The Southern Buh river gives direct access to the Black Sea.
mcv
Feels crazy that, in the middle of fighting an existential war for the survival of their country, they still have eye for this sort of thing. Completely unlike Russian soldiers, who even dug trenches in the radioactive soil of Chernobyl.
asimpletune
People from the area we call Ukraine are mentioned throughout Herodotus' Histories. It is an extremely old and important region.
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shiko_1st
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Innumerable archaeological sites are being destroyed in Ukraine. As I understand it, the true scope of destruction is not even known. But especially kugans are being ravages as they provide good fighting positions and good targets for strikes.
Not as horrible as all the deaths, but sad nonetheless.