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Burial mounds raised over the dead.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic · Irish Middle Neolithic (Boyne Valley)
Grand passage tomb in the Bend of the Boyne with 85 m diameter cairn, decorated kerbstones and cruciform chamber. Famous for winter solstice sunrise illuminating chamber through roof-box.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tumulus
Scythian Late Classical (4th c BCE, Philip II horizon) · Pontic Scythian (kingdom of Ateas / Late Scythian)
20-m, 110-m largest Pontic kurgan (350–325 BCE) — 80 Greek amphorae and gold gorytos, king Ateas candidate.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Bronze to Early Saka, Afanasievo to Saka · Afanasievo to Early Saka Altai
Kalbak-Tash multi-period kurgan field (2800-600 BCE) of 22 cromlechs co-located with 500-panel rock-art gorge on Chuya River.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Tasmola transition · Tasmola–Begazy (Sary-Arka early nomads)
Stepped tetrahedral kurgan southeast of Karaganda: 54-m four-terrace pyramid mound (800 BCE).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Late Saka to Kangju · Lower Syr Darya delta culture
Lowest Central Asian kurgan (55 m) on Syr Darya delta: 42-m brick-vault mound with 4-horse sacrifice.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka 480 BCE to Wusun 180 CE (gateway reuse) · Saka Semirechye primary; Wusun 180 CE secondary
38 m gorge-gateway sentinel 610 m: 480 BCE + Wusun 180 CE, 6 horse offering pits around base marking Shylbyr gorge mouth.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus
Late Iron Age, Xiongnu Empire · Xiongnu (Hunnu) northern imperial elite
Xiongnu elite shaft tombs in Khentii pine forest—Han silk 'Chanyu servant' inscription and lapis 4,000 km trade chain.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age (Early Saka, Tasmola, 9th–8th c BCE) · Tasmola early Saka (Central Kazakhstan)
Largest Tasmola mound (60 m, 820–780 BCE) with 430-gold elite couple — contemporary with Arzhan 1.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tumulus
Late Bronze Age (1600-1100 BCE) · Mycenaean
Dimini Mycenaean Tholos North Dromos — Southern Extension in Thessaly, Volos, Greece is a Late Bronze Age (1600-1100 BCE) tumulus attributed to Mycenaean.
🇳🇴 Norway · Tumulus
Viking Age (late) · Viking Norse (Vestfold chieftaincy)
23.3-m Viking longship (c.900 CE) under 44-m mound — chieftain burial with 64 shields, Sindri blue clay.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tumulus
Late Bronze Age (1600-1100 BCE) · Mycenaean
Dimini Mycenaean Tholos North Dromos in Thessaly, Volos, Greece is a Late Bronze Age (1600-1100 BCE) tumulus attributed to Mycenaean.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Buyeo Neungsan-ri Tomb Cluster 3 in Chungnam, Buyeo, South Korea is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Three Kingdoms Silla 4th–6th c CE → Unified Silla · Silla Three Kingdoms (Gyeongju Hwangnam)
Hwangnam Daechong — largest Silla royal twin mound tomb (5th–6th c CE, Silla middle period) 800 m south Wolseong palace, Gyeongju Tumuli Park, excavated 1973–75 Cultural Heritage Administration…
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Late Sarmatian (1st c BCE–1st c CE, Prokhorovka to Alan transition) · Late Sarmatian (Bashkir Prokhorovka–Alan transition)
Bashkir steppe Sarmatian chieftain mound (30 BCE–60 CE) 42 m with scale-armour horse and Parthian faience.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Anyang Yin Xu Fu Hao Tomb North Niche in Henan, Anyang, China is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to Third Intermediate/Napatan (1200–750 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and Kushite (Napatan)
Napatan rock-cut cemetery 3 km south Jebel Barkal (1200–750 BCE), pyramids 4–6 m base, rock tombs.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Three Kingdoms Silla 5th–6th c CE · Silla Three Kingdoms (Gyeongju Tumuli)
Cheonmachong (Tomb No.155) — Silla royal tomb (c.5th–6th c CE, Silla middle) 100 m west Hwangnam Daechong, Gyeongju Tumuli Park, excavated 1973 CHA (Kim Jeong-hak).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Late Saka (post-Besshatyr royal) · Late Saka with Chinese contact
Besshatyr outlier M16: 48-m isolated mound 2.5 km NE with Balbal stela and Chinese mirror, 300 BCE.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Andronovo / Saka) + Turkic · Andronovo / Saka / Turkic
Ili River terrace kurgan field (650 m, 43°56′N 75°32′E 43.93,75.53) downstream from Tamgaly UNESCO rock-art gorge (1145), on second terrace above Ili.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kofun Late 7th–early 8th c CE (Asuka) · Asuka late Kofun court — shijin astronomical Daoist
Kitora Tumulus Nara — 7th–8th c CE late Kofun painted tomb (zenpo-koen remnant 13.8×9.8 m) on Abuyama hill at Asuka, Nara basin, National Treasure since 1983.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Tagar (Scythian-type Early Iron Age) · Tagar
18 Tagar satellite kurgans (700–300 BCE) on Salbyk terrace — hierarchy around Great Salbyk mega-mound.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Megalith
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Eastern Teotihuacan Platform B — Teotihuacan (56-03) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Early Historic (regional) megalithic of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Megalith
Classical (regional) · Classical
Lower Teotihuacan Platform I — Teotihuacan (56-33) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Classical (regional) megalithic of the Classical tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Kitora Tumulus — Buried Mural North (Asuka, Japan) in Nara, Asuka, Kitora, Japan is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Hal…
