Excavated megasites in Moldova, Romania and Ukraine reveal ancient cities shaped by advanced construction techniques and large populations.
“You know there is a book by Jules Verne called the Mysterious Island, where people find themselves on an island and begin to build a civilisation?” asked Mykhailo Videiko, an archaeologist at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in Ukraine. “But here it is not a fictional story,” he paused. “This is a real story.” Silenced twice, once by time and again by politics, the ancient civilisation of Cucuteni-Trypillia is once again finding voices to share its story.
The story of Trypillia, as it is commonly known, started 7,000 years ago in what is now Eastern Europe, primarily Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. Excavated settlements offer modern archaeologists one of the earliest known examples of urbanisation and suggest a population that exceeded one million people.
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