"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.
