Who were the distant ancestors of the French and Germans, Irish and Lithuanians, Serbs and Ossetians? They were ancient Rus, says historian and writer Yu. D. Petukhov: not the Russian people in the modern sense of the word, but the super-ethnic group of Rus, who became the creators of the original history of mankind tens of thousands of years ago! From them came the Slavs and Greeks, Balts and Germans... The religion of the ancient Rus, the search for their ancestral home, the great migrations of peoples - this is what this book is about, which, according to the author, resurrects the true history of world culture.