🇵🇹 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.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Cheonmachong Tomb (Heavenly Horse Tomb)
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).
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Carrowmore — Listoghil Central Tomb
Middle Neolithic – Bronze Age · Carrowmore passage/boulder tradition (early)
Ireland's largest cemetery — ~30 boulder dolmens around Listoghil passage tomb (3600 BCE), oldest on Cúil Irra peninsula.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Coricancha (Qorikancha) – Temple of the Sun, Cusco
Late Intermediate – Late Horizon (1200–1533, imperial 1440–1532) · Inca (Manco Capac to Atahualpa)
Supreme Inca sanctuary (c.1200–1533, imperial rebuild Pachacuti c.1440) at heart of Cusco's sacred geography: trapezoidal-walled temenos enclosing Sun Temple curved ashlar wall (6 m high, 55 m long,…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Kivik King's Grave (Kungagraven i Kivik)
Early Nordic Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Scania elite)
Scandinavian Bronze Age masterpiece — 75 m cairn with cist bearing eight slabs of ship and solar carvings, c.1400 BCE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Giants' Tomb of Sa Domu 'e S'Orcu — Siddi, Sardinia
Middle to Late Bronze Age (c.1600–1000 BCE) · Nuragic (Bonnanaro–Middle Bronze)
Sa Domu 'e S'Orcu (Middle–Late Bronze Age c.1600–1000 BCE) on the Giara di Siddi basalt plateau is a 17-m giants' tomb with a 4.5-m high crescent forecourt (hemicycle) of basalt orthostats and a 10-m…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure Avebury
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure Avebury at Wiltshire, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic of the Windmill Hill tradition, built c.
🇧🇪 Belgium · Megalith
Wéris Megalithic Field
Late Neolithic (3200–2500 BCE) · Seine-Oise-Marne (SOM) — Atlantic Neolithic
Concentrated group of two gallery dolmens (Wéris I and Oppagne), three menhir fields and the Danthine and Oppagne stone alignments on a 8 km ridge near Wéris in the Ardennes.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Pömmelte Ring Sanctuary
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Bell Beaker → Únětice / Early Bronze Age
115 m Bell Beaker/Early Bronze Age ring sanctuary with seven concentric timber-ditch circles and ritual pits, c.2300 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus de Dissignac
Early Neolithic · Atlantic Breton / Loire Neolithic (Castellic / Chasséen contact)
Double passage tumulus near Saint-Nazaire — two parallel graves (11 m and 9 m) under one 28 m mound, c.4300 BCE.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Klein Upahl Megalithic Grave
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Klein Upahl Megalithic Grave in Mecklenburg, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Aksum — North Stele Park Stele 4 Plinth
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Aksum — North Stele Park Stele 4 Plinth in Tigray, Aksum, North Stele Park, Ethiopia is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic att…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Lancken-Granitz Dolmens
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Lancken-Granitz Dolmens in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Emerald Mound
Plaquemine Mississippian Emerald phase 1250–1600 CE · Plaquemine (Natchez)
Second-largest mound in N America, 10.7 m terraced pyramid, 1250–1600 CE.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Carn-Reservoir Standing Stones
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
Torralba d'en Salord — Taula and Talayot Double Enclosure Menorca
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Holm of Papa Westray North Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic
20 m stalled long cairn on uninhabited holm off Papa Westray — paired with South cairn 200 m away.
🇵🇹 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Millbarrow (Winterbourne Monkton Long Barrow)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney Cromarty stalled tradition
Rousay stalled cairn — 13 m seven-compartment chamber under 22 m mound on south coast.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dombate Dolmen — Galician Passage Grave Painted Panel-Menhir Atlantic
Neolithic (3800–2700 BCE corridor 3800, painted 2700 BCE) · Galician Neolithic Dombate style (Atlantic megalithic painted art)
Dombate excavated by Bello 1998 Galician largest.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
West Kennet Long Barrow
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
100 m Early Neolithic chambered long barrow near Avebury with five sarsen chambers under chalk mound.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Hunebed D17 at Rolde
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
Large TRB hunebed D17 at Rolde (c. 3400 BCE), 17 m chamber with 8 capstones, one of the intact Drenthe passage graves near Rolde church. Excavated and restored showing pottery and flint assemblage.