🇪🇬 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.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Tholos de Montelirio
Chalcolithic · Valencina Copper Age / Los Millares horizon
Seville Chalcolithic tholos with 40 m corridor and sun-motif slabs, part of 400 ha Valencina copper town.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Lehedzyne Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Trypillia BI–BII (c.4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Trypillia BI)
One of the classic Trypillia BI mega-sites near Lehedzyne (Legedzine), 90 ha with ~1100+ houses identified by magnetometry, excavated and famously reconstructed as a full-scale burning experiment in…
🇦🇺 Australia · Archaeological wonder
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
Gunditjmara continuous 6,600–6,000 BCE to present (dated 6,700 BP Muldoon trap) · Gunditjmara Aboriginal Australian
Gunditjmara aquaculture over 6,600 years on Budj Bim basalt lava flow (30,000-year-old volcano) with 750 m of stone channels, weirs and eel traps (kooyang) manipulating Lake Condah wetlands.
🇦🇺 Australia · Earthwork
Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps (Baiame's Ngunnhu)
Aboriginal estimated 40,000 BP to historical (continuous); documented >3,000 years · Ngemba / Murrawarri / Ualkay Aboriginal
Estimated 40,000-year-old stone weir complex on Barwon River comprising four traps across 500 m with crescent stone walls 2.5 m high guiding fish into pens, attributed to ancestral creation being…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith
Deer Stones of the Mongolian Plateau
Late Bronze Age (~1400–700 BCE) · Karakhush / Deer Stone–Khirigsuur culture (Bronze-Age pastoralist)
Over 1,200 granite stelae across Mongolia present stylized reindeer in airborne gallop covering the stone from antler to hoof, interspersed with suns, daggers and human face-belts marking the waist.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cairnbaan Cup and Ring Marks
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic
Cup-and-ring schist panels above Kilmartin Glen with >100 carvings, c.3000 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
Archaic through Hohokam 7500 BCE–1400 CE · Hohokam and Archaic–Patayan
4,000-petroglyph basalt concentration, 7500 BCE–1400 CE.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor Wat
Khmer Empire, early Angkor period 1113–1150 CE · Khmer (Hindu then Theravada Buddhist)
Vishnuite then Buddhist temple-mountain and world's largest religious monument (162.6 ha), built early 12th century by Suryavarman II as state temple and center of Khmer Empire; oriented west with…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Carnac Stones
Middle to Late Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Over 3,000 standing stones in three major alignments (Ménec, Kermario, Kerlescan) extending 4 km, plus dolmens and tumuli. Earliest European megalithic region (Antiquity 2025).
🇱🇦 Laos · Megalith
Plain of Jars
Iron Age 500 BCE – 500 CE (some lids to 800 CE) · Unknown Austroasiatic? Ancestors of Lao-Tai
Megalithic landscape of >90 sites with >2,100 large carved sandstone jars (1–3 m tall, up to 14 t) scattered across Xiangkhouang plateau, carved 500 BCE–500 CE, associated with mortuary rites and…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ness of Brodgar
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Major Late Neolithic walled enclosure (c.3200–2300 BCE) between Ring of Brodgar and Stenness, with monolithic structures including Structure 10 (25 m hall) with painted stone, tiled roof and imported…
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Rapa Nui National Park (Easter Island Moai)
Rapa Nui Period 900–1500 CE; ahu construction 1000–1600 CE · Rapa Nui (Polynesian)
Remote Polynesian island 3,700 km west of Chile with nearly 900 basalt moai monoliths (up to 10 m, 86 t, one unfinished 270 t) carved 900–1500 CE at Rano Raraku tuff quarry and erected on stone ahu…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Taş Tepeler Network – Karahan & Sefer Tepe etc.
PPN A/B 9600–8000 BCE · Taş Tepeler PPN
Umbrella for 12 PPN hilltop sanctuaries (Karahan, Göbekli, Sayburç, Çakmaktepe, Sefer Tepe etc.) being excavated 2019-present, revealing 250+ T-pillars region-wide, reshaping Neolithisation model.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Karahan Tepe
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Major Taş Tepeler sister site to Göbekli Tepe, ~15 ha with quarries, 266 T-pillars and special building with 11 pillars and phallic/human-head statuary. Reveals 12-site hilltop sanctuary network.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Brujo Archaeological Complex (Huaca Cao Viejo / Lady of Cao)
Moche Early Intermediate 100 BCE–800 CE · Moche (Chicama Valley)
Moche pyramid 30 m, Lady of Cao tomb 400 CE proving queenship.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Garagay Archaeological Complex — Lima Temple with Polychrome Reliefs
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Castillo de Huarmey — Wari Imperial Mausoleum
Wari Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE · Wari (Huari imperial)
Wari mausoleum 64 tombs gold queens 600–800 CE, intact 2012.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bandurria Archaeological Site (Huacho)
Late Archaic 3550–2500 BCE · Norte Chico (Caral)
Caral network city 54 ha 3550–2500 BCE, 10 plazas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Ventarrón Archaeological Complex
Initial Period 2500–500 BCE · Early coastal Formative
Deer-net mural 2000 BCE, oldest in Americas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Sechín Bajo Archaeological Site
Late Archaic–Initial 3500–1500 BCE · Casma-Sechín tradition
First Plaza 3500 BCE, Third Platform 16 m × 300 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Kuntur Wasi Archaeological Complex
Initial–Early Horizon 1000–250 BCE · Kuntur Wasi tradition
Gold-temple four platforms, gold burials 800 BCE.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Rano Raraku Quarry detail
900–1500 CE · Rapa Nui
Cross-ref quarry within Rapa Nui National Park main entry; tuff quarry with 400 moai in situ including El Gigante (~21 m).