Click Here to Read:  Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge: Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished. By Emma Marris on the Nature website on January 7, 2025.

A map of the approximate extent of the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.Image: Saukkomies at English Wikipedia.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.