Archaeological Sites in Ukraine
City/town/settlement in Ukraine (25)
Apolyanka
Apolyanka is a village in the Babanka settlement hromada of Uman raion, Cherkasy oblast, Ukraine, with 430 inhabitants. The village lies in the north-east of Uman raion, 25 km…
Berezan Island
The Berezan island is situated in the Black Sea at the entrance of the Dnieper-Bug Estuary, Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast. Berezan was home to one of the earliest Greek colonies…
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…
Chersonesus
Chersonesus was an ancient Greek colony founded by settlers from Heraclea Pontica on the southwestern coast of Crimea, near modern Sevastopol. It operated as a Greek democracy,…
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…
Dobrovody
Dobrovody is a 4th millennium BC site of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture. The total area is about 2.5 km2. Using aerial photography, a fortified city with blocks and streets can be…
Dykyi Sad Archaeological Site
Dykyi Sad was a fortified urban settlement of the final Bronze Age, located in the historical center of modern-day Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Situated on a high promontory at the…
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…
Glubochek
Glubochek (Hlybochok) in Ukraine is a Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement. It belongs to a network of massive settlements concentrated in the Southern Bug-Dnieper interfluve, which…
Kalos Limen
Kalos Limen ('Charming Harbor') was an ancient Greek colony on the west coast of the Crimean Peninsula, founded in the 4th century BC. The fortified city covered about 4 hectares…
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…
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…
Kosenivka
Kosenivka is the site of an ancient mega-settlement belonging to the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture dating to 3800–3600BC. This site has gained importance as the remains of seven…
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…
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. The structures…
Nebelivka Archaeological Site
The Nebelivka archaeological site, located in the village of Nebelivka in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, is the site of an ancient mega-settlement dating back to 4000 B.C. belonging…
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…
Pantikapaion
Pantikapaion was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica. The city lay on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, and was founded…
Pontic Olbia
An ancient Greek colonial city founded 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, also known as Kermenchik, was an Iranic settlement that existed in the Crimean Peninsula from the end of the 3rd century BC until the second half of the 3rd…
Settlements of the Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture
The study of the settlements of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture provides important insights into the early history of Europe. The Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, which existed in the…
Shypyntsi
Shypyntsi (Ukrainian: Шипинці) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the left bank of the Prut River in the Dniester Hills region. The site…
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…
Stina, Ukraine
Stina is the site of a Cucuteni-Trypillia culture mega-settlement in Ukraine.
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…
Mound/tumulus in Ukraine (7)
Kul-Oba
Kul-Oba is an ancient archaeological site, a Scythian burial tumulus now called the Royal Kurgan, located near Kerch in eastern Crimea. Kul-Oba was the first Scythian royal barrow…
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…
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…
Melitopol Kurgan
The Melitopol kurgan was a Scythian kurgan of the 4th century BCE (340–320 BCE), in the city of Melitopol, on Skifska Street (formerly Pershotravneva Street). The kurgan had been…
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,…
Solokha Kurgan
The Solokha kurgan is on the left bank of the Dnieper, 18 km from Kamianka-Dniprovska, opposite Nikopol. It has a height of 19 m and a diameter of about 100 m, dating to the early…
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).…
Archaeological site in Ukraine (2)
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…
Peregonivka
The Cucuteni-Trypillia culture (c. 5050-2950 BC) extended from the Carpathian Mountains to the Dnieper region, with mega-sites containing up to 3,000 structures and possibly…
Cemetery in Ukraine (2)
Burial Ground of Cherneliv-Ruskyi
The burial ground of Cherneliv-Ruskyi is a burial site of the Chernyakhov culture, an archaeological monument of local importance. It is located in the Mohylky tract of the…
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…
Earthwork in Ukraine (1)
Fort in Ukraine (1)
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Petroglyphs in Ukraine (1)
Standing stone in Ukraine (1)
Other sites in Ukraine (2)
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…
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…
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