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CategoriesMegaliths
Stone circles, dolmens, menhirs and passage tombs raised without metal tools.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Mesolithic (7000–5000 BCE) · Ertebølle / Kongemose — Mesolithic hunter-gatherer
Iconic Late Mesolithic cemetery complex on former coastal lagoon in Scania, southern Sweden, with two cemeteries (Skateholm I and II) totalling ~65 graves (c.6000–5000 BCE).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Late Formative 1500 BCE–100 CE (Izapa style) · Mixe-Zoque? / early Maya (Izapan)
90 stelae with Popol Vuh genesis narrative, 1500 BCE–100 CE.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (~5500–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Arabian pastoralist
More than 1,600 elongated rectangular courtyard monuments – Arabic mustatil – stitched across 200,000 km² of Saudi desert between the Nefud and Red Sea, rendered visible only by satellite.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian / Roman (Hellenistic to Late Antique) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Numidian–Roman hill city with neo-Punic mausoleum, dolmens and Trajan's arch.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation (Bronzo Medio/Recente)
UNESCO archetype nuraghe in central Sardinia — trilobate basalt tower with four bastions, tholos chambers and 55-hut village, 1500-1000 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA to Early PPNB · Upper Tigris PPN (Göbekli sphere northern fringe)
Upper Tigris PPNA village with three T-pillar buildings and skull cult, salvage-saved from Ambar Dam.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Anta da Pedra da Orca in Guarda, Centro, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Barkjær Causewayed Enclosure in Jutland, Denmark is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100 BCE–500 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell 22 ha circle-square with 321 m Great Circle, UNESCO 2023 unit-of-measure type-site.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Kergadiou Menhirs in Brittany, Finistère, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Anta de Santa Marta in Porto District, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone oval circle (24.4×21.9 m) with rare 2.7 m quartz-veined central standing stone and cist.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Snowdonia Early Bronze Age
8.7 m Snowdonia crown cairn with 18 angled slate pillars and 2 m outlier — most photogenic Bronze Age tomb in Wales.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Multi-period: Neolithic to Medieval (c.2500 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age (Broch) → Pictish → Norse
4,000-year layered settlement mound at Shetland's southern tip with broch, wheelhouses, Viking longhouse and medieval farm.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Megalith
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (~2000 BCE – 600 BCE; astronomical claims to 5500 BCE disputed) · Kura-Araxes / Trialeti to Urartian (southern Armenian Bronze Age)
221 basalt menhirs 0.5–2.8 m high form a central 45-m ellipse with 32-m straight avenue and northeast arm, plus an outlying circular tomb and dolmen-like cists.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Greby Grave Field in Västra Götaland, Sweden is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Sarup Causewayed Enclosure in Funen, Denmark is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Nuragic
Second Giants' Tomb near Arzachena with 3.5 m decorated portal stele and 9.5 m gallery, 1800-1500 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Er-Roh Dolmen in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Klekkende Høj Passage Grave in Møn, Denmark is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇮 Finland · Megalith
Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) · Scandinavian Bronze Age — Finnish coastal
Bronze Age burial site on a forested ridge uplifted from the sea near Rauma, inscribed UNESCO 1999.
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Roman Iron Age–Medieval (200–1400 CE) · Norwegian Iron Age / Viking — Sea-kings of Karmsund
Oldest Norwegian royal seat at the narrow Karmsund strait, where saga sources place Harald Fairhair's main manor.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Intermediate Wanka (Xauxa) 1000–1460 CE · Wanka (Xauxa)
1,000-house Wanka honeycomb hilltop citadel, 1000–1460 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Bronze Age
Four-stone row (to 2.8 m) amid Kilmartin's Bronze Age linear cemetery with cup-marked cairns.
