At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its long history either coveted, conquered or controlled by various powers.

An exhibition of over 500 artifacts telling the ancient history of Crimea has opened in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The items were loaned from museums in Crimea, Kyiv, and Odesa to an Amsterdam ...

Ancient Scythian artefacts from museums in Russian-occupied Crimea have been returned to Ukraine after a legal dispute over ownership rights during which they spent almost a decade in the ...

It’s a situation that people did not choose, but are forced to live in.” Crimea has been a crossroads for millenniums, colonised by serial invaders from Mongol warriors to Genoese traders.

Ancient gold and silver jewelry has been unearthed from within crypts at an early medieval burial ground in Crimea. The burial ground is called the Almalyk-dere necropolis, and it is located on ...

Hundreds of ancient artifacts from Crimea that were stored in a Dutch museum for nine years while Russia and Ukraine waged a legal battle over their ownership are now back in Ukraine, officials in ...

Whilst Russia’s claim to Crimea hinges entirely on its imperial heritage, the long-lasting connections between Ukraine and Crimea go back to ancient history.

The ancestors of Europeans first settled in Crimea about 37,000 years ago, DNA analysis on two ancient individuals reveals.

A gold stater has sold for more than £4.8m setting a record for the most expensive ancient coin sold at auction. The coin from ancient Greece was sold at a Numismatica Ars Classica auction in ...