🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Shunet el-Zebib, Abydos
Early Dynastic 2nd Dynasty ~2750 BCE · Early Egyptian Dynastic
2750 BCE 137 m mudbrick enclosure - Egypt's oldest monumental walls prototyping pyramid complex.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Sinai Nawamis Road (Route of the Nawamis — Serabit to Ain Huderah)
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (Ghassulian–Arad, Maadi–Buto) · Sinai–Negev Chalcolithic (Ghassulian, South Sinai pastoral)
25-km Sinai nawamis beehive road (3800–3200 BCE) with 15 mustatil-like platforms linking coast to Serabit mines.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat South — Saqqara (Saqqara)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat South in Saqqara, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) megalithic attributed to Medieval culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Tepe Sialk Platform A — Saqqara (Saqqara)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Tepe Sialk Platform A in Saqqara, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Shunet el-Zebib Enclosure Abydos
Early Dynastic · 2nd Dynasty Egyptian
Shunet el-Zebib Enclosure Abydos at Abydos, Shunet el-Zebib, Egypt is a Early Dynastic megalithic of the 2nd Dynasty Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Nabta Playa Astronomical Site
Early Holocene Neolithic (~7500–3500 BCE) · Nubian Neolithic pastoralist (El Nabta culture)
Beside a fossil playa that filled during the African Humid Period, nomads erected a 5-m mini-Stonehenge of quartzite slabs and radial lines pointing to summer solstice sunrise and to Sirius/Arcturus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Nawamis of the Sinai Desert
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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Bargat el-Shab Stone Circle — Nabta Playa Satellite
Early to Middle Holocene (7000–5000 BCE ceremonial) · Nabta Playa Neolithic cattle pastoralists (Bunon?)
Bargat excavated by Wendorf & Schild combined archaeological project 1999–, cattle pastoralist ritual with Nabta solstice 45 km.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Eastern Giza Reservoir Inner — Giza (56-49)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Eastern Giza Reservoir Inner — Giza (56-49) at Giza, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Sacred Giza Enclosure II — Giza (56-44)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Sacred Giza Enclosure II — Giza (56-44) at Giza, Egypt is a Neolithic (regional) megalithic of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for enclosure and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Southern Giza Citadel Inner — Giza (56-07)
Classical (regional) · Classical
Southern Giza Citadel Inner — Giza (56-07) at Giza, Egypt is a Classical (regional) megalithic of the Classical tradition, built c. 800 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Old Giza Ridge I — Giza (56-45)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Old Giza Ridge I — Giza (56-45) at Giza, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Karnak 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Meroe Northern Pyramid Field Extension — Giza Plateau (Giza)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Meroe Northern Pyramid Field Extension in Giza Plateau, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Royal Giza Ridge West — Giza (56-35)
Classical (regional) · Classical
Royal Giza Ridge West — Giza (56-35) at Giza, Egypt is a Classical (regional) megalithic of the Classical tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Hillfort Dolmen
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Hillfort Dolmen in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) megalithic attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.