And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Scythian silver amphora, 4th century B.C.
The amphora was found in an impressive kurgan in the vicinity of Nikopol city in Ukraine.
Don't be a Scythy.
ReplyDeleteAnd now Zelensky has it up on eBay so he can put even more money into his offshore accounts.
ReplyDeleteExquisite craftsmanship, especially when one considers when it was made.
ReplyDeleteWhom did they steal it from?
ReplyDeleteMaybe the Nazis stole it during WW2 and left it with their Nazi friends in Ukraine for safe keeping.
DeleteMore Ukrainians died serving in the red army than the British, French and Americans died serving in their respective militaries during WWII combined.
DeleteThe Scythians had nice jugs.
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