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18,000 years ago, ice age humans built dwellings out of mammoth bones in UkraineSome people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.
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Crimean Stone Age 'crayons' were used by Neanderthals for symbolic drawings, study claimsScientists have discovered Stone Age "crayons" in Crimea, hinting that Neanderthals may have used them for symbolic drawings or markings. But not everyone agrees.
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Lviv pysanka: World's oldest Easter eggA decorated duck egg discovered in a trash pit is the world's oldest "pysanka."
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Stone Age 'CSI': Archaeologists identify a family killed in a house fire nearly 6 millennia agoHuman bones discovered in a house that burned down 5,700 years ago are providing archaeologists "CSI"-style clues about the deaths of seven people in prehistoric Ukraine.
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Rare Roman-era silver ingots depicting Constantine the Great seized from alleged black-market saleA man allegedly tried to illegally sell three rare Roman-era silver ingots that his great-grandmother reportedly found in her garden years ago.
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Chernobyl worms appear unaffected by radiation from world's worst nuclear disasterMicroscopic worms in Chernobyl remain unscathed despite having been long exposed to radiation.
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Doomsday Clock hovers at 90 seconds to midnight for 2nd year in a rowThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited the threat of nuclear escalation in Ukraine, climate change and disruptive technologies as reasons to keep the clock at 90 seconds to midnight.
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1,000-year-old cemetery with dead wearing dramatic rings on their necks and buckets on their feet found in UkraineThe discovery of a cemetery in Ukraine from a millennium ago has revealed axes, swords, jewelry and, unexpectedly, buckets around the feet of some of the dead.
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Metal detectorists find buried WWII aircraft in Ukraine while disarming wartime bombThe aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union in 1941 to help the Allied war effort, but they were dumped to avoid payment.
