🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clickimin Broch
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1000 BCE–500 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age
Multi-phase broch on loch islet near Lerwick with unique blockhouse forework and wheelhouse overbuild.
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CategoriesMegaliths
Stone circles, dolmens, menhirs and passage tombs raised without metal tools.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Early Intermediate Lima to Middle Horizon Wari 1–800 CE · Lima culture (later Wari influence)
167-ha tapia pyramid city, 1st–8th century CE Lima culture metropolis.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1000 BCE–500 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age
Multi-phase broch on loch islet near Lerwick with unique blockhouse forework and wheelhouse overbuild.
🇹🇷 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.
🇬🇲 Gambia · Megalith
Late Iron Age to Medieval (750–1000 CE peak) · Serer–Wolof proto-Jola / Senegambian megalithic
Wassu is the Gambian component of UNESCO Senegambian Stone Circles (1226, 2006) — 11 megalithic circles (4.5–6 m Ø) with 1–2 m laterite pillars (cylindrical, dressed with iron wedge) enclosing burial…
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Late Jomon 2000–1500 BCE · Jomon Late
Twin Late Jomon double-stone circles (2000–1500 BCE) — Manza (46 m dia) and Nonakado (42 m dia) placed either side of prefectural road at Oyu, Kazuno, each concentric with sundial-like 2.1 m central…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine Mississippian Emerald phase 1250–1600 CE · Plaquemine (Natchez)
Second-largest mound in N America, 10.7 m terraced pyramid, 1250–1600 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Middle Kingdom to Ptolemaic (c.2000 BCE–100 CE; major phase New Kingdom 1550–1070 BCE) · Egyptian Pharaonic (Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman)
Largest temple complex in Egypt – 200 acres built over 1,500 years from Senusret I (1956 BCE) to Romans.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Carn-Reservoir Standing Stones in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) megalithic attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1000–500 BCE taula; 900 BCE talayot cone 10 m high 18 m diameter 12th–6th) · Talayotic Menorca Talayot-taula-hypostyle triple (Mediterranean Bronze to early Iron village)
Torralba 1990s talayot-taula-hypostyle 14 columns.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Maya Classic 150–950 CE · Maya (Naachtun/Masuul and K'an affiliation)
Strategic Classic Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, 150–950 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Neolithic to Iron Age (2000–1000 BCE) · Southern Neolithic
Hallur — Karnataka Iron Age in Karnataka, Haveri, India is a Neolithic to Iron Age (2000–1000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Southern Neolithic culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Intermediate to Inca 900–1470 CE for human chullpas; natural rocks Tertiary · Wari-Associates?/Yauyo to Inca; natural geology Tertiary volcanics
4000-m 'stone forest' of giant natural pareidolic rocks and chullpa tombs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic
20 m stalled long cairn on uninhabited holm off Papa Westray — paired with South cairn 200 m away.
🇨🇦 Canada · Megalith
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Dolmen de Sanctuary in British Columbia, Canada is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Late Intermediate–Late Horizon Colla–Inca 1100–1532 CE · Colla (Qolla) and Inca
Second chullpa field after Sillustani: 120 towers 10 m on mesa with puma and monkey reliefs.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Bronze Age to Pre-Roman Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE) · Nordic Bronze Age / Gotlandic
Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age stone ship on Gotland's west coast, 30 m long outline of limestone slabs forming a ship shape aligned roughly north–south with larger prow stone.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Mine Tel Dolmen in Sicily, Italy is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) megalithic attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Modern (reuse) · Alentejo Megalithic → Baroque Christian
17th-century chapel built inside a Neolithic anta with seven granite uprights whitewashed as walls, near Évora.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Portal Tomb
Low-set portal tomb above Carlingford Lough near Rostrevor, 35-40 ton capstone, among heaviest in Ireland.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Late Jomon (c.1500 BCE) · Late Jomon
Sea-bluff Jomon stone circle (1500 BCE, 33×22 m oval, 440 stones) — burial and market above Sea of Japan.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Wari to Inca 1000–1532 CE · Wari–Cusco–Inca
Terraced Wari–Inca ushnu spring shrine on Cusco–Abancay road, 1000–1532 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Coastal long stalled cairn on Westray eroding at Point of Cott, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, c.3750 BCE.
