🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Izapa
Late Formative 1500 BCE–100 CE (Izapa style) · Mixe-Zoque? / early Maya (Izapan)
90 stelae with Popol Vuh genesis narrative, 1500 BCE–100 CE.
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CategoriesMegaliths
Stone circles, dolmens, menhirs and passage tombs raised without metal tools.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle to Late Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Halland)
Two 4.5 m 'gallows' menhirs plus 18 m circle and 25 m ship on Halland coastal plain — saga-linked cemetery.
🇲🇽 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.
🇮🇹 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.
🇵🇹 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.
🇺🇸 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.
🇬🇧 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.
🇮🇹 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.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Neolithic to Early Historic (1000 BCE–200 CE) · Southern Neolithic / Maurya
Brahmagiri — Chitradurga in Karnataka, Chitradurga, India is a Neolithic to Early Historic (1000 BCE–200 CE) megalithic attributed to Southern Neolithic / Maurya culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1100 BCE early central talayot 9 m; late 800–600 BCE five talayots cluster; Post-Talayotic 500–100 BCE houses) · Talayotic Mallorca's largest 5-talayot clumped village 7000 m²
Capocorb Vell 5 talayots 1100–800 Capocorb mallargest.
🇬🇧 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA · Taş Tepeler PPN
Taş Tepeler T-pillar quarry hill with unfinished 5 m blanks still attached to bedrock.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Middle Sicán to Chimú 700–1375 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque) then Chimú
Golden Priestess tomb within twin truncated pyramids, 700–1375 CE.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Megalith
Medieval Senegambian (750–1150 CE) · Serer megalithic
Sine Ngayène is the largest Senegambian stone-circle nucleus (Senegal) with 52 circles including the 'Diallombere' double circle Ø6.5 m and 110 m long stone alignment, enclosing 1,000+ burials on 5…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Late Bronze Age · Talayotic culture of Menorca (Pretalayotic)
Menorca's iconic boat-shaped naveta tomb — 14 m cyclopean funerary monument 1200-750 BCE, UNESCO 2023.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · East Cornwall Early Neolithic
East Cornwall's tallest quoit — 2.4 m uprights supporting capstone 3 m high with internal divider and rear window.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB)
Falbygden cluster core — trapezoidal dolmen Ragnvald's Grave and 28 passage graves on limestone plateau, c.3300 BCE.
🇨🇷 Costa Rica · Megalith
Chiriquí period (~600–1500 CE; peak Aguas Buenas 800–1350 CE) · Diquís (Chiriquí, Isthmo-Colombian)
Costa Rica's Diquís Delta preserves over 300 near-perfect spheres of gabbro up to 2.66 m diameter and 16 tonnes, shaped by pecking and grinding until calipers verify sphericity within 2 cm.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (~4000–3000 BCE) · Sinai pastoralist (Nawamis culture, Timnian)
Fields of roughly 100 dry-stone beehive tombs 2–5 m diameter on the high Sinai plateau between Ein Khudra and Wadi Watir, each a corbelled cairn with single entrance facing west.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Concentric double circle (13.7 m outer) with inner 4-stone ring and cairn, 500 m SE of Callanish I.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Preclassic to Classic Olmec–Maya transition 800 BCE–900 CE · Olmec to Maya (K'iche' Pacific)
Olmec-Maya transition site with earliest Long Count stela 126 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Ancestral Pueblo Virgin branch Basketmaker III–Pueblo II · Ancestral Pueblo (Virgin Anasazi / Ancestral Pueblo)
100-room Virgin Anasazi pueblo complex partly drowned by Lake Mead, 300 BCE–1150 CE.
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Iron Age–Viking Age (600–900 CE) · Yngling / Vestfold Viking
Largest burial mound cemetery in Nordic Europe, seven monumental mounds (6–45 m diameter, up to 6 m high) and 21 smaller ones along Oslofjord near Horten, traditional burial of Yngling sea-kings…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon Lima Ychsma–Inca 1200–1532 · Ychsma–Inca
Tapia palace with 1,000-burial cemetery, 1200–1532 CE Lima–Inca.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4000–3500 BCE; medieval chapel atop) · Armorican / Channel Neolithic (Norman Neolithic)
Jersey's paramount Neolithic monument crowns a 12-m artificial mound containing a cruciform passage grave with a 12-m roofed chamber aligned so equinox sunrise illuminates the rear cell.
