Archaeological Sites in Ukraine
Apolyanka
Apolyanka is a Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement in Ukraine dating to 3600-2700 BC. Covering 90-120 hectares, it ranks among the largest proto-urban centers in Chalcolithic Europe. It is one of over…
Berezan Island
Berezan Island lies in the Black Sea at the entrance of the Dnieper-Bug Estuary in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. In 647 BC, Greek settlers from Miletus founded a colony here known as Borysthenes, making…
Boundary Stones, Ukraine
The Boundary Stones is a Late Neolithic megalithic site in Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, consisting of two parallel rows of 15 pairs of stone monoliths forming an alley of menhirs…
Burial Ground of Cherneliv-Ruskyi
The Burial Ground of Cherneliv-Ruskyi is a major Chernyakhov culture cemetery (3rd-4th century AD) in the Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine, and the most extensively studied site of this culture in…
Charax, Crimea
Charax is the largest Roman military settlement excavated in Crimea, established around AD 70 under Emperor Vespasian on Cape Ai-Todor atop an earlier Taurian settlement, about 7 km southwest of…
Chersonesus
Chersonesus was an ancient Greek colony founded c. 421 BCE by settlers from Heraclea Pontica on the southwestern coast of Crimea, near modern Sevastopol. It operated as a Greek democracy, became the…
Deriivka
Deriivka is a Copper Age settlement and cemetery on the right bank of the Dnieper in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, dating to c. 4500-3500 BC and associated with the Sredny Stog culture. The site gained…
Dobrovody
Dobrovody is a 4th millennium BC mega-settlement of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. Covering approximately 250 hectares, it was one of the largest settlements on Earth…
Dykyi Sad Archaeological Site
Dykyi Sad ("Wild Garden") is a fortified Bronze Age settlement in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, dated to the Bilozerka culture (c. 1250-925 BC). It is the only steppe settlement of its era found in Ukraine,…
Gelonus
Identified with the Bilsk hillfort near Poltava, Ukraine, this is probably the largest Early Iron Age settlement in Eastern Europe at 5,000 hectares -- five times larger than ancient Babylon.…
Glubochek
Glubochek (Hlybochok) in Ukraine is a Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement dating to approximately 4000 BC, covering 132 hectares. It belongs to a network of massive proto-urban settlements…
Kalos Limen
Kalos Limen ('Charming Harbor') was an ancient Greek colony on the west coast of the Crimean Peninsula, founded by Ionian settlers in the 4th century BC. The fortified city covered about 4 hectares…
Kamyana Mohyla
Kamyana Mohyla is an archaeological site in the Molochna River valley, about 1.6 km from Terpinnia village in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine[1]. The site features petroglyphs spanning from the Upper…
Kerch
Kerch, one of the oldest cities in Crimea, was founded around 600 BC as Panticapaeum by Greek colonists from Miletus. By the 5th century BC it became the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom, a major…
Khortytsia
Khortytsia is the largest island on the Dnieper River, measuring 12.5 km long and up to 2.5 km wide, located within Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine [1]. The island forms part of the Khortytsia National Reserve…
Khotiv Hillfort
An early Iron Age hillfort from Scythian times (6th century BC) in the village of Khotiv, adjoining southern Kyiv near Feofaniya Park. It occupies a rhombic plateau of 1,000 x 700 m bordered by…
Kocherzhyntsi
Kocherzhyntsi is the site of a Cucuteni-Trypillia culture mega-settlement in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, dating to approximately 3200-2700 BC. The settlement covered around 100 hectares, making it one…
Kosenivka
Kosenivka, Ukraine, is a Cucuteni–Trypillia culture mega-settlement dating to 3800–3600 BC. The site gained significance for the discovery of seven individuals found in a burnt house, likely a…
Ksaverove
Ksaverove is the site of a Cucuteni-Trypillia culture mega-settlement in Ukraine, dating to approximately 3600-3200 BC. Covering an area of about 100 hectares, it was exceptionally large for its era,…
Kul-Oba
Kul-Oba is a Scythian burial tumulus (kurgan) near Kerch in eastern Crimea, on the right side of the M25 road to Feodosiya[1]. Known as the Royal Kurgan, it was excavated in 1830 and yielded a wealth…
Kvitky
Kvitky is a Cucuteni-Trypillia culture mega-settlement in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, dating to 3600–3200 BC. The site covered approximately 150 hectares (370 acres), making it one of the largest known…
Maidanetske
Maidanetske is a Cucuteni-Trypillian mega-site in central Ukraine, continuously occupied between approximately 3990 and 3640 cal BCE. Geomagnetic surveys revealed up to 3,000 houses arranged in…
Mamai-Hora
Mamai-Hora is the largest multicomplex burial mound in the Northern Black Sea region, located near Velyka Znamianka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. Spanning millennia of use from the Eneolithic…
Melek-Chesmensky Mound
The Melek-Chesmensky Kurgan is a 4th-century BC Bosporan burial mound in Kerch, named after the nearby Melek-Chesme river. Standing 12 m high with a 63 m diameter, it contains a 3.7 m square burial…
Melgunov Kurgan
Melgunov Kurgan (also Lyta Mohyla) is an early 6th-century BC royal Scythian burial mound near the village of Kopani in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine. Excavated in 1763 on the instructions of Oleksiy…
Melitopol Kurgan
Melitopol kurgan was a Scythian burial mound (kurgan) of the 4th century BCE (340–320 BCE), located in the city of Melitopol, Ukraine, on Skifska Street near the railway station [1]. The mound had…
Merheleva Ridge
Merheleva Ridge (Ukrainian: Мергелева гряда) is an Eneolithic temple and burial complex in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, featuring four large stone kurgans (mounds) near Perevalsk, approximately 30 km…
Mezhyrich, Cherkasy Oblast
Mezhyrich is an Upper Palaeolithic site in Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine, famous for four mammoth-bone dwellings dating to approximately 18,200-17,400 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum.…
Mezine
Mezine (or Mezyn) is an Epigravettian archaeological site in northern Ukraine, located on the Desna River bank near the village of Mezine in Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast [1]. The site…
Myriv
An ancient Iron Age Scythian fortified settlement in Ukraine, founded around 800-750 BC, and one of the largest Scythian sites between the Dniester and Dnieper rivers, covering over 100 hectares. The…
Nebelivka Archaeological Site
Nebelivka, located in the village of Nebelivka in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, is an ancient mega-settlement of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture dating to 4000 BC [1]. The settlement spanned 260-300…
Nymphaion, Crimea
Nymphaion was a significant centre of the Bosporan Kingdom, located on the Crimean shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus. Today, the ruins stand near Heroivske, approximately 14 km south of Kerch (ancient…
Pantikapaion
Pantikapaion was an ancient Greek colony founded by Milesian settlers c. 600-575 BC on Mount Mithridates at the western shore of the Kerch Strait in Crimea. By the early 5th century BC it became…
Peregonivka
Peregonivka is a Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement in Ukraine dating to 4000-3600 BC, covering approximately 100 hectares. It belongs to the culture's middle phase, when populations built some of…
Pontic Olbia
An ancient Greek colonial city founded in the 6th century BC by Ionian settlers from Miletus on the shore of the Southern Bug estuary in Ukraine. Olbia, meaning 'the fortunate one,' became a major…
Scythian Neapolis
Scythian Neapolis (Kermenchik) was an Iranic settlement in the Crimean Peninsula from the late 3rd century BC to the mid-3rd century AD [1]. It served as the capital of the Late Scythian Kingdom and…
Serpent's Wall
The Serpent's Wall (Ukrainian: Змієві вали, Zmiievi valy) is an ancient system of earthworks spanning approximately 1,000 km across central Ukraine, primarily in Kyiv Oblast. Built between 500 BC and…
Settlements of the Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture
The Cucuteni-Trypillia culture (c. 5500-2750 BC) left behind thousands of settlement ruins across modern Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine, spanning 350,000 sq km from the Carpathians to the Dnieper.…
Shypyntsi
Shypyntsi (Ukrainian: Шипинці) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, southwestern Ukraine, situated on the left bank of the Prut River in the Dniester Hills region[1]. The site…
Solokha Kurgan
The Solokha kurgan is a 4th-century BC Scythian royal burial mound on the left bank of the Dnieper, 18 km from Kamianka-Dniprovska opposite Nikopol in central Ukraine[1]. It rises 19 m high with a…
Stepanivka
Stepanivka is a Cucuteni-Trypillia culture settlement in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, dating to approximately 5000-4300 BC and covering 15 hectares. The site represents a significant intermediate stage…
Stina, Ukraine
Stina is the site of a Cucuteni-Trypillia culture mega-settlement in Ukraine dating to 3600-3200 BC. Covering approximately 100 hectares (250 acres), it ranks among over 29 settlements in the 100-450…
Sushkivka
Sushkivka is the site of a Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement in Ukraine dating to approximately 3600-3200 BC. Covering about 100 hectares (250 acres), it was among the largest settlements in…
Tsarskyi Kurgan (Royal Kurgan)
The Royal Kurgan (Tsarskyi Kurgan) is a monumental 4th-century BC burial mound near Kerch in eastern Crimea, believed to be the tomb of Bosporan King Leukon I (r. 389-349 BC). Standing nearly 20…
Yenikale Ruins
An Ottoman fortress built in 1699-1706 on the shore of the Kerch Strait in Crimea, designed by Goloppo, an Italian convert to Islam, along with French engineers. Strategically positioned at the…