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CategoriesMegaliths
Stone circles, dolmens, menhirs and passage tombs raised without metal tools.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Huge court tomb near Killeen (King's Ring), court 6.4×13 m, lintelled entrance, c.3800 BCE.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb tradition
Two portal tombs and court tomb at Kilclooney More, Ardara, capstone 30 tons, c.3500 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Western French Neolithic
Major passage dolmen near Rennes — 19.5 m passage of 45-tonne schist slabs, largest in Upper Brittany.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Andalusian Neolithic / Guadalquivir Megalithic
20 m Andalusian corridor dolmen in Cádiz hills with painted orthostats and 30 m tumulus, c.4000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Massive portal tomb between Hilltown and Castlewellan, granite capstone on cairn with north cist, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Severn
England's third-largest circle complex — 113 m Great Circle plus two smaller circles and Cove near Bristol.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA · Taş Tepeler PPN
Tektek ridge domestic-ritual village showing everyday life behind Göbekli's monuments.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Neolithic (Maeshowe group)
Maeshowe-type cairn on hill above Firth with 5 m crawl passage to chamber containing human and dog skulls.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Bronze Age Food Vessel
Gravel-terrace cemetery cairn NW of Kilmartin village with seven Bronze Age cists.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Archaeological wonder
Joseon Dynasty 1794–1796 CE · Joseon Korean (Jeongjo)
5.52 km bastioned city wall (1794–1796) built by King Jeongjo to honor father Prince Sado and establish new capital, combining Korean, Chinese and Western bastion design via Silhak scholar Jeong…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Maya Classic Late 600–800 CE · Maya (Moral-Reforma polity)
Twin Maya temples on San Pedro River, 300 BCE–900 CE.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Jersey Neolithic
Urban dolmen and cist-in-circle complex in St Helier, Jersey, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb tradition
Tripod portal tomb on drumlin near Castlewellan, County Down, massive capstone on three slender portals, c.3500 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Tallest menhir in Brittany — 9.3 m rose granite monolith near Dol-de-Bretagne, c.5000 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Intermediate to Inca 1200–1450 CE · Colla (Aymara) succeeded by Inca
12-m funerary towers in finely jointed stone above lake - Andes highest chullpas.
🇦🇺 Australia · Earthwork
Aboriginal estimated 40,000 BP to historical (continuous); documented >3,000 years · Ngemba / Murrawarri / Ualkay Aboriginal
Estimated 40,000-year-old stone weir complex on Barwon River comprising four traps across 500 m with crescent stone walls 2.5 m high guiding fish into pens, attributed to ancestral creation being…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle Neolithic to Viking Age · Funnel Beaker → Bronze Age → Iron Age Scandinavia
3000-year grave field with Neolithic Girommen passage grave, Bronze cairn, Iron Age settings and Viking ship in one meadow.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic (Bookan tradition)
10 m round Bookan-type chamber with three cells, 200 m south of paired North long cairn.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
Early Marae 1000–1500 CE classical Polynesian (peak 1350–1773) · Polynesian / Ra'iātean (Ma'ohi)
Polynesia's most sacred marae center (1000–1773 CE) on 31 ha lagoon peninsula tip Taputapuatea, with 60×45 m marae Taputapuatea (stone national marae) and 16 other marae including Hauviri and Opoa,…
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Jersey Passage Grave
Inland hilltop passage grave on Les Platons, Trinity, Jersey, upland sited, c.3800 BCE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic–Postclassic 900–1521 CE · Matlatzinca (Otomanguean)
Volcano-plug fortified Matlatzinca capital with 2 km perimeter wall, jaguar relief and Aztec barracks 1474.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Rock-outcrop court tomb east of Downpatrick, type site for Ballyalton bowls, c.4000 BCE.
🇦🇺 Australia · Megalith
Wathaurong estimated pre-contact >11,000 years? Potentially 5,000–10,000 BP; verified historical · Wathaurong Aboriginal
50 m egg-shaped (~50×35 m) stone arrangement with 100 basalt boulders (20 kg–500 kg) with Aboriginal Wathaurong alignment to equinox and solstice sunsets over distinct outlier stones.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Iron Age to Viking Age · Late Germanic Iron Age / Viking Age Svear
Sweden's largest burial mound — 14 m high with five stone ships and runestone, Iron Age to Viking royal cemetery.
