The Vorskla River valley in Eastern Ukraine is characterized by its low and partly marshy left bank with sandy terraces bearing traces of settlements from the Mesolithic to the Middle […]
The last three centuries BC are regarded as the “Dark Ages” in the ancient history of the forest-steppe zone between the Dnipro and Siversky Donets rivers. The end of the […]
The examination of prehistoric burial mounds in the steppe provides valuable insights into the burial practices and social structures of ancient communities, shedding light on their cultural and religious beliefs. […]
The Bilsk hillfort (8th–4th centuries BC) is a key site of the Scythian period in the Ukrainian forest-steppe, identified with the Herodotus city of Gelon. Among other settlements of the […]
The Bronze Age was a significant period in Eurasian prehistory, which left many traces on the territory of present-day Ukraine. This is evidenced by tens of thousands of archaeological sites […]
Archaeological research is not restricted to prehistoric or early historical times. The material culture of the last centuries – the period that we usually know well from historical sources – […]
The ancient city of Olbia – an exceptional monument of the Greek and Roman colonization of the Northern Pontic – has been the subject of several posts in our blog. […]
The Linear Band Pottery Culture (the Linearbandkeramik or LBK) is an archaeological phenomenon with an immense geographic scope. The settlements in the western area of this culture have been studied […]
The heritage work is not only saving the sites or objects under acute threat. An essential part of our assistance is also funding of projects that document and analyze the […]
The burning of the dead as a burial custom has been practiced for over 4000 years. For most of the ancient communities that lived on the territory of Ukraine from […]
Anthropomorphic stone stelae are a very widespread cultural phenomenon of the past. Besides burial mounds, they have shaped the European and Eurasian steppe landscapes since the 4th millennium BCE. Especially […]
Last week, we discussed trade relations within the northern Pontic Greek poleis. Today, the focus will be on the wider relations within the Greek oikumene. Iryna Chechulina from the Department […]
The Greek poleis on the northern Black Sea coast were by no means an episodic phenomenon in the history of modern Ukraine, but a period that had a significant impact […]
The settlement of Viytenky dating to the Late Roman and the Early Migration periods is one of the long-lasting cooperation projects of the Eurasia Department of the DAI with Ukrainian […]
Bilsk, located in the Poltava region of Eastern Ukraine, is among the largest Early Iron Age sites in Europe and a key site in Scythian archaeology. Several projects within our […]
