🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Monte da Toca — Anta cist Iberia Satellite Fontão
Neolithic (3800 BCE) Monte da Toca regional variant · Alentejo Neolithic Toca group
Monte da Toca excavated.
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🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Cromlech of Xerez
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic (c.4000–3000 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic
Squared (7 x 7 m) Alentejo cromlech of 55 small monoliths around 4 m phallic central menhir with cupules — moved for Alqueva dam.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Castro of Zambujal
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.3000–1700 BCE) · Vila Nova de São Pedro / Bell Beaker (Estremadura)
Atlantic Copper Age hilltop proto-town (3000–1700 BCE) with walls, bastions, barbican and Bell Beaker metallurgy.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro Periphery — Southern Extension
Late Neolithic (3500-2800 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro Periphery — Southern Extension in Alentejo, Evora, Portugal is a Late Neolithic (3500-2800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iberian Neolithic.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Cromlech Vale Maria do Meio
Late Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic (Évora tradition)
U-shaped Alentejo cromlech (34 menhirs, 10 x 12 m) near Almendres — open eastern entrance intermediate to squared Xerez.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta de Pendilhe — Vila Nova de Paiva
Early–Middle Neolithic (c.3800–3200 BCE) · Northern Portuguese Megalithic (Beira Alta)
Anta de Pendilhe (called Orca de Pendilhe, Neolithic c.3800–3200 BCE) is a classic Beira Alta polygonal dolmen on the Dão plateau near Vila Nova de Paiva, with seven granite uprights 3.5 m tall…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Phantom island
Antillia – Phantom Island of Seven Cities
1424 Pizzigano – 1580 removal, but name lives · Portuguese–Genovese cartography + Visigoth legend
1424 Pizzigano rectangle at 35N 28W — seven bishop cities phantom that gave Antilles its name.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta de Pavia Chapel
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.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Alentejo — Almendres Cromlech Western Europe's Largest Stone Circle
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE earliest Almendres 6000 alley; cromlech 5000 BCE) · Alentejo Neolithic Almendres (Cardial) and later
Almendres Gromlech Sofia's largest Iberian, 6000 BCE.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
Atlantis on Azores – Brasseur / Donnelly Azores Plateau Atlantis
Claimed 9600 BCE Atlantis (plateau 5–10 Ma) · Pseudo Donnelly / Ocean drilling
Azores 1–2 km deep plateau claimed Atlantis — DSDP Leg 37 shows 5–10 Ma spreading Recorded context — Period: Claimed 9600 BCE Atlantis (plateau 5–10 Ma); Culture: Pseudo Donnelly / Ocean drilling;…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Almendres Menhir Pair — Vale Maria do Meio Cromlech Satellite
Neolithic (5200–4200 BCE) Almendres satellite · Alentejo Neolithic satellite 5200-4200
Vale Maria do Meio excavated by Pina 1960s, U cromlech.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient port
Atlantis on Azores Spur – Bimini Second Bank Pseudo-Atlantis Extension
Pseudoarchaeology claim (1882 Donnelly Azores → 2019 YouTube spur) · Donnelly / Brasseur / Bimini–Azores YouTube composite
Pseudo Azores spur causeway – claim that Azores Plateau spur at –1800 m is Bimini's second basalt highway bank.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock art
Coea Valley Rock Art Penascosa Panel 3
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Coea Valley Rock Art Penascosa Panel 3 in Guardia, Côa Valley, Portugal is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2000 BCE) · Vila Nova de São Pedro (Iberian Chalcolithic / Bell Beaker)
Iberian Chalcolithic type-site (3000–2000 BCE) — three-walled fortified settlement with bastions and copper workshop on Tagus plain.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta da Alcoverias North Chamber — Southern Extension
Middle Neolithic (3800-3200 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Anta da Alcoverias North Chamber — Southern Extension in Alentejo, Evora, Portugal is a Middle Neolithic (3800-3200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iberian Neolithic.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Antas de Olival da Pega
Early Neolithic – Chalcolithic (c.3500–2800 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic (Almendres tradition)
Reguengos twin antas in shared mound — Anta 1 with 16 m corridor, 4 m polygonal chamber and schist plaques (3500 BCE).
🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock art
Foz Côa Canada do Inferno Panel 11
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Foz Côa Canada do Inferno Panel 11 in Guardia, Côa, Portugal is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro Periphery — Western Terrace
Late Neolithic (3500-2800 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro Periphery — Western Terrace in Alentejo, Evora, Portugal is a Late Neolithic (3500-2800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iberian Neolithic.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta da Alcoverias North Chamber — Western Terrace
Middle Neolithic (3800-3200 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Anta da Alcoverias North Chamber — Western Terrace in Alentejo, Evora, Portugal is a Middle Neolithic (3800-3200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iberian Neolithic.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Meropis – Theopompus' Parody Atlantis in the Atlantic
Classical literature (350 BCE Theopompus – quoted 2nd c. CE Aelian) · Chian Greek paradoxography
Theopompus 350 BCE satirical Atlantic island with two million-man cities — direct parody of Plato's Atlantis two generations later.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Antilia–Brasil Composite – Seville Phantom of 1424
Medieval cartographic (1424 Pizzigano – 1492 Columbus) · Pizzigano–Portuguese cartographic
1424 Pizzigano rectangular 'Seven Cities' phantom west of Azores — Columbus' waypoint to Cipangu before Antilia arch.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Cividade de Terroso — Póvoa de Varzim
Late Bronze to Roman (c.900 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Calaici–Bracari coastal)
Cividade de Terroso (Late Bronze Age–Roman, c.900 BCE–100 CE) on a 153-m hill 5 km east of Póvoa de Varzim beach is the coastal anchor of the Ave–Cávado castro system, a 12-hectare walled town with…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
Mayda (Maida) – Crescent Phantom of the Atlantic
Medieval–Modern cartography (1367 Pizzigani – 1906) · Italian Majorcan–Bristol cartographic
Much-copied Atlantic crescent since 1367 — crescent concave east at 46N 20W surviving to Admiralty 1906.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Almendres — Western Menhir Gate Portal
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Almendres — Western Menhir Gate Portal in Alentejo, Évora, Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, Portugal is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) meg…