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Ukraine

73 places in the atlas, 2 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.

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Ancient cities43
Submerged sites29
Ancient ports23
Archaeological wonders15
Settlements11
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Buried cities9
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Verified63
Accepted9
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Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Melitopol Raion, Molochna valley3
Crimea, Kerch Strait north shore at Voikovo (Myrmekion), Kerch Strait narrows north2
Crimea, Kerch Strait, Geroevka / Eltigen south bay2
Crimea, Kerch Strait, Naberezhne village, Cimmerian Bosporus south shore2

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Verified63 Widely accepted9 Contested1

Crimea, Kerch, Arshintseve (Kamysh-Burun) south bay, Tyritake harbour south

Crimea, Sevastopol, Pesochnaya Bay (Sandy Bay) east of Chersonesos2

Ukraine, Mykolaiv Oblast, Bug (Southern Bug) estuary at Parutyne, northern harbour2

Cherkasy Oblast1

Cherkasy Oblast, Chyhyryn Raion, Kholodnyi Yar forest1

Cherkasy Oblast, Lysianka Raion1

Cherkasy Oblast, Talne Raion, Lehedzyne village1

Cherkasy Oblast, Talne Raion, Vesely Kut village1

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Pseudoarchaeology0

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Partially excavated33 Submerged23 Excavated9 Excavation ongoing8

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art

Kamennyye Mogily North Gully Petroglyphs

Early Bronze Age · Catacomb (Katakombnaya)

North gully 350 m north of Kamyana Mohyla with Catacomb geometric masks and wagon panels.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Myrmekion — South Harbour Submerged Quay (Kerch Strait South)

Archaic to Late Antique (570 BCE – 370 CE) · Ionian / Bosporan

South Strait harbour of Myrmekion — 70 m quay at –2.5 m and wine cellar.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Cave

Verteba Cave

Chalcolithic Trypillia BI–C1 (4100–3500 BCE) Podolia cave sanctuary · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Podolia cave sanctuary phase, Bilche-Zolote variant)

Verteba Cave (Peștera Verteba) — gypsum karst cave sanctuary (Cucuteni-Trypillia CI 4100–3500 BCE, 9 km passages) at Bilche-Zolote, Podolia, Ukraine's largest Trypillia cave site.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Tyritake — North Quay Submerged Harbour (Kerch Bay Tyritake North)

Archaic to Late Antique (570 BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan

North wine quay of Tyritake on Kerch Bay — 60 m quay at –1.5 m and vat terrace.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city

Trypillia

Neolithic–Chalcolithic Trypillia A–C2 (5500–3500 BCE) type · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Eastern branch) — Khvoika's Tripolye

Trypillia (Trypillya/Tripolye) — eponymous type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1893–97 by Vikentiy Khvoika on Dnieper right bank 40 km south Kyiv.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site

Akra – The Fully Submerged Bosporan City at Cape Takyl

Archaic to Late Roman (c.560 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan

Crimean Atlantis — intact classical street grid and double walls at 3–7 m deep off Cape Takyl, the only wholly underwater Bosporan town.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art

Kamennyye Mogily South Ridge — Petryn Gully

Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age · Sredny Stog, Yamnaya, Catacomb

Southernmost sandstone outlier of Kamyana Mohyla island-hill, a low dome 200 m south of the main conglomerate mass exposing 12 shallow grottoes along Petryn Gully.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city

Dobrovody

Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia B1–B2 (c.4100–3700 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia, Tomashivka group)

Dobrovody (Dobrovodi) — Cucuteni-Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3700 BCE, 150–250 ha, 700+ houses, up to 16,200 estimated inhabitants per 2014 research) west of Dobrovody village, Cherkasy, on loess…

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Chersonesos — Pesochnaya Bay Submerged Quay (Tauric Chersonesos East)

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Heraclean Greek / Bosporan

Eastern bay harbour of Tauric Chersonesos in Sandy Bay — 110 m quay at –1.8 m and twin ship-shed ramps.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Chersonesos — Pesochnaya Bay Submerged Quay (Tauric Chersonesos East) — v2

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Heraclean Greek / Bosporan

Eastern bay harbour of Tauric Chersonesos in Sandy Bay — 110 m quay at –1.8 m and twin ship-shed ramps.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Ancient city

Panticapaeum – Bosporan Acropolis on Mount Mithridat

Milesian Greek to Late Roman (600 BCE – 370 CE; Byzantine reoccup. 6th c.) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan Scythian / Mithridatic Pontic / Roman

Bosporan Kingdom capital on Mount Mithridat — acropolis above with harbour terraces now 1–3 m under Kerch Strait.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site

Tyritake – Submerged Fish-Salting Town at Arshintsevo

Archaic to Late Roman (550 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan

Bosporan fish-sauce factory town — 30 salt-cisterns with anchovy bones, lower industrial strip now 1–2 m underwater off Kerch spit.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city

Polivaniv Yar

Eneolithic Precucuteni → Cucuteni A (5100–4500 BCE) Western · Precucuteni–Cucuteni A (Western Cucuteni-Trypillia earliest)

Polivaniv Yar III (Polivanov Yar) — Precucuteni → Cucuteni A stratified tell (c.5100–4500 BCE, 2 ha, 6 horizons) on Dniester cape at Khotyn, Chernivtsi, Bessarabia border.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Olbia Pontica — Parutyne Northern Mole on Bug Estuary (Borysthenes)

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan

Northern mole of Olbia Pontica on Bug estuary at Parutyne — 120 m mole at –2 m and river quay with pilings.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Olbia Pontica — Parutyne Northern Mole on Bug Estuary (Borysthenes) — v2

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan

Northern mole of Olbia Pontica on Bug estuary at Parutyne — 120 m mole at –2 m and river quay with pilings.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Tyritake — Submerged Harbour at Tyritake South (Kerch South Bay)

Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan

Southern fish-salting harbour of Tyritake at Kamysh-Burun south — 16 vats at –1.5 m and 70 m quay at –2 m.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Tyritake — Submerged Harbour at Tyritake South (Kerch South Bay) — v2

Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan

Southern fish-salting harbour of Tyritake at Kamysh-Burun south — 16 vats at –1.5 m and 70 m quay at –2 m.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city

Varvarovka

Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1 (3800–3500 BCE) Southern Bug · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 (Varvarovka variant, Usatovo contact)

Varvarovka (Varvarovca) — cluster of Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 settlements Varvarovka VIII and XV (c.3800–3500 BCE, 5–10 ha each) on Southern Bug right bank at Varvarovka village, Mykolaiv NW suburb, Bug…

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell

Varvarovka 8 (Usatovo)

Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Tripolye C2 → Usatovo (c.3500–3200 BCE) → Early Yamnaya fringe · Late Trypillia C2 → Usatovo (Post-Trypillia) steppe–farming synthesis → Early Yamnaya infiltration

Usatovo village–kurgan cemetery (c.3500–3200 BCE) on liman — Trypillia→Yamnaya bridge with stelae and copper (Petrenko).

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell

Kolomiychyna (Trypillia)

Middle Chalcolithic Trypillia B1 (c.4400–4200 BCE); Cucuteni–Trypillia B1 transition megacluster · Cucuteni–Trypillia B1 (Trypillia near Kyiv core) → B2 megasites

Middle Trypillia B1 (c.4400–4200 BCE) palisaded village with 40 burnt houses on Stugna — eponymous Trypillia cluster near Kyiv.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city

Maydanets

Chalcolithic Trypillia B2 (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia)

Maydanets (Maidanetske) — giant Cucuteni-Trypillia B2 mega-settlement (c.3800–3600 BCE, 200–260 ha, ~1,575–2,900 houses, 9,000–46,000 estimates) on Talyanka River, Cherkasy.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site

Nymphaion – Bosporan Vine City on Geroevka Cape

Archaic to Medieval (570 BCE – 13th c. CE; port antique) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Pontic / Byzantine

Bosporan wine port with Dionysus sanctuary — chalk-cliff city whose harbour now 2–4 m under Kerch Strait.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Kurgan

Mykhailivka (Mikhaylovka) — Yamnaya type site

Lower Eneolithic → Repin → Classic Yamnaya (Pit Grave) · Sredny Stog / Trypillia → Repin → Yamnaya (Pit Grave culture)

Yamnaya triple settlement on Dnieper (3600–2600 BCE) — Lower Trypillian fort, Middle Repin–Yamnaya ditch and Upper Yamnaya town with adjacent Pit Grave kurgans, birthplace of Yamnaya culture.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Hillfort

Monastyrok

Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1–C2 (3600–3400 BCE) Galicia · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 Galicia–Podolia (Usatovo contact)

Monastyrok — Trypillia C1 hillfort (c.3600–3400 BCE, 3 ha, fortified promontory) on Seret River above Dniester, Chortkiv, Galicia–Podolia.

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Kamennyye Mogily North Gully Petroglyphs

Myrmekion — South Harbour Submerged Quay (Kerch Strait South)

Verteba Cave

Tyritake — North Quay Submerged Harbour (Kerch Bay Tyritake North)

Trypillia

Akra – The Fully Submerged Bosporan City at Cape Takyl

Kamennyye Mogily South Ridge — Petryn Gully

Dobrovody

Chersonesos — Pesochnaya Bay Submerged Quay (Tauric Chersonesos East)

Chersonesos — Pesochnaya Bay Submerged Quay (Tauric Chersonesos East) — v2

Panticapaeum – Bosporan Acropolis on Mount Mithridat

Tyritake – Submerged Fish-Salting Town at Arshintsevo

Polivaniv Yar

Olbia Pontica — Parutyne Northern Mole on Bug Estuary (Borysthenes)

Olbia Pontica — Parutyne Northern Mole on Bug Estuary (Borysthenes) — v2

Tyritake — Submerged Harbour at Tyritake South (Kerch South Bay)

Tyritake — Submerged Harbour at Tyritake South (Kerch South Bay) — v2

Varvarovka

Varvarovka 8 (Usatovo)

Kolomiychyna (Trypillia)

Maydanets

Nymphaion – Bosporan Vine City on Geroevka Cape

Mykhailivka (Mikhaylovka) — Yamnaya type site

Monastyrok