Megalithic Portal: Latest from Ukraine

Motronyn Hillfort

Anne T — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:54:10 GMT

]]>Hillfort, Barrow Necropolis and Monastery in Ukraine

Nebelivka Mega-Settlement

Anne T — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:27:28 GMT

]]>A Trypillia (Cucuteni-Trypillian) culture mega-settlement in Ukraine dating to approximately 4000 BCE. It covered 260-300 hectares and is estimated to be home to perhaps 16,000 people - one of the largest settlements of its time in Europe or Asia. The image is a clay model of a typical Trypillian house. This was possibly the world's earliest proto-urban centre, pre-dating the better known cities of Mesopotamia. Unlike these, the Trypillia settlements appear to have been periodically burned and rebuilt, possibly as part of a cycle of ritual renewal. The question of whether these were permanent cities or seasonal gathering places remains actively debated.

Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro

Andy B — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:14:59 GMT

]]>Ukraine’s daring mission to save centuries-old stone figures amid the recent Russian push. Museum in Ukraine with a permanent collection consisting of 283 thousand objects from ancient Palaeolithic implements to World War II. The museum has a large collection of stone baba figures, the Kurgan stelae, Kernosovskiy idol, a particularly rich collection of objects from the Cossack period, and a sizable ethnographic and numismatic collection.

Berezan' Runestone

CharcoalBurner89 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:43:47 GMT

]]>Discovered in 1905 by Ernst von Stern, on Berezan' Island (also known as the Island of St. Aitherios) where the Dnieper River meets the Black Sea. The runestone is 48 cm wide, 47 cm high and 12 cm thick, and kept in the museum of Odesa. Pictured is a faithful replica currently on display at the Historiska Museum in Stockholm. The original was made by a Varangian trader named Grani in memory of his business partner Karl. They were probably from Gotland, Sweden.

Odesa Archaeological Museum

CharcoalBurner89 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:02:53 GMT

Museum in Ukraine

Zaporizhzhya Regional Museum

Andy B — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:20:44 GMT

]]>Renaming the museum after outstanding Ukrainian historian Yakov Pavlovich Novytsky. Regional history museum with collection located in 22 halls with departments of nature, archaeology and history. The archaeological collection is one of the largest among regional museums in Ukraine. Of particular interest are the unique monuments of the Bronze Age and Scythian times, the periods of the Chernyakhov culture and the Middle Ages.

Metz De Boz

C_Michael_Hogan — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:17:13 GMT

]]>A Palaeolithic archaeological site situated approximately 300 kilometres south of Kiev, Ukraine. Alternatively known as the Medzhybizh A site, this ancient site has yielded a variety of flint tools, but most notably, possibly the oldest ivory tools ever discovered. Eleven of the ivory artefacts showed clear evidence that they were modified for tool use, including sharp pointed ivory pieces. The site has been dated to at least 400,000 years before present. Likely ancient inhabitants of this site from the paleolithic period were H. Neanderthalensis (Neanderthals)

Mezhyrich

XIII — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:16:43 GMT

]]>In 1965, a farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth while in the process of expanding his cellar. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been shelters known to have been constructed by pre-historic man, usually attributed to Cro-Magnon. Also found on the site: a map inscribed onto a bone, presumably showing the area around the settlement remains of a "drum", made of a mammoth skull painted with a pattern of red ochre dots and lines amber ornaments and fossil shells.

National Museum of Natural History, Ukraine

Andy B — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:12:59 GMT

Museum in Ukraine

Tyritake

Shwabb1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:28:05 GMT

Ancient Village or Settlement in Ukraine

Myrmekion

Shwabb1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:27:16 GMT

Ancient Village or Settlement in Ukraine

Kimmerikon

Shwabb1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:26:50 GMT

in Ukraine

Nikonion

Shwabb1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:26:17 GMT

Ancient Village or Settlement in Ukraine

Nymphaion (Crimea)

Shwabb1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:25:54 GMT

Ancient Village or Settlement in Ukraine

Eski Kermen

ivanjohnson — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:03:13 GMT

]]>Eski Kermen (Old fortress) is a spectacular rock-cut medieval fortress town in the western part of Crimea in Ukraine. Built on top of a table mountain 1km long and 170m wide, with 30m high cliffs, it was before the war one of the most visited rock cities of Crimea. Ivan visited in 2016.