Ancestors of our ancestors

On July 3, 1799, a peasant and his son worked in their vineyard in the town of Nagy-Saint-Miklós. Suddenly the shovel hit something metal. They began to dig further. And they pulled out a lot of golden vessels to the surface of the earth: 7 jugs, 11 cups, glasses, goblets, a drinking horn

On the history of the first Slavic state of Samo. Ancient chronicles mention this legendary power. Modern scientists express various versions of the location of Samo

In 1958, scientists from the British Institute of Archeology surveyed the Konya plateau, in the province of the same name in Turkey. They discovered under a layer of earth the remains of an ancient city - perhaps the ancestral home of all Indo-European peoples

For many years it was believed that in ancient times only wild nomadic tribes lived in the Southern Urals. However, in the 1990s, scientists found the remains of an ancient city in the Ural steppe, which forced us to reconsider our ideas about the movement and evolution of the Indo-European peoples. And the more they study this city, the more secrets and mysteries

Today even schoolchildren know about the famous "path from the Varangians to the Greeks", first described in The Tale of Bygone Years: it is considered the connecting axis around which the Russian lands united. But did this path really exist?

This story is like a fairy tale. The father of all Bulgarians, Khan Kubrat, bequeathed to his children not to share power. Five sons, like five fingers gathered into a fist, is strength. But the sons did not listen. Thus, a historical experiment was set up. One people went in different directions. And he began to live in different parts of Europe. And the fate of the branches of one tree was also different

Rurik unites the Slavic tribes under the flag of Novgorod. After 20 years, Prince Oleg conquers Kyiv and expands the borders of the ancient Russian state to the south. However, the Byzantine Empire does not intend to share its influence. About the difficult relations of Ancient Russia and Byzantium - speech in the film

In 2010, the small village of Volnikovka in the Kursk region was at the center of criminal news. Black diggers discovered an ancient treasure in the vicinity of the villages and put up the jewels for sale. The deal was about to go through. But at the very last moment, the criminals were detained. Typically, finds of this level are sent to metropolitan museums

According to The Tale of Bygone Years, the Russians had their own state in 862, when the Slavs called Prince Rurik with the Varangian squad "from beyond the sea". However, there is an alternative version, according to which, even before Rurik, the Rus already had their own rulers - kagans. And it could have its own pre-state - the Russian Khaganate

At the beginning of the 20th century, a large collection of ancient manuscripts found in Egypt came to Cambridge. Among them, there was a unique letter telling about the disappeared people of the Khazars. Two more letters - which also mention the Khazars - ended up in Oxford and St. Petersburg. How did the steppe-Khazars manage to subdue many peoples? Where did they come from to the Caspian and Black Sea steppes, where they formed their own state - the Khazar Khaganate? And the main question - why did they adopt a religion alien to them - Judaism?

Once upon a time, a significant part of Germany was inhabited by Slavic tribes. They controlled all the trade routes of the Baltic region, and their cult centers amazed foreign guests with wealth and prosperity. For several centuries, the Baltic Slavs waged a bloody war for their independence. But one day they disappeared, dissolved in a foreign ethnic group

One of the largest cities of Ancient Russia of the VIII-IX centuries, industrial and commercial center of the Baltic region. There are reasons to think that Ladoga, and not Veliky Novgorod or Kyiv, should be considered the first ancient Russian capital. Participants: historians A. Kirpichnikov, V. Lapshin, architect I. Voinova, archaeologist N. Grigorieva, publicist and writer A. Chernov