🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Etowah Indian Mounds
Mississippian, Etowah phase 1000–1550 CE · Mississippian (Muscogean ancestors)
19-m Mississippian Temple mound with copper falcon plates and marble effigies.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Colossus of Rhodes site
Hellenistic 292–280 BCE; destroyed 226 BCE · Greek Rhodian (Hellenistic)
33-m bronze sun-god toppled by earthquake 54 years after raising.
🇴🇲 Oman · Archaeological wonder
Ubar (Ubaruq) Mustatil Field — Rub al Khali eastern edge (Shisr–Mudayy)
Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period, 5300–5000 BCE) · East Arabian Neolithic (Ubar–Wusta pastoral, Humid Period)
30 large mustatils (5300–5000 BCE) at Ubar — easternmost Rub al Khali cattle-cult province.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Menga Annex Sector 517
Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Dolmen de Menga Annex Sector 517 in Andalusia, Spain is a Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Annex — Western Terrace
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Annex — Western Terrace in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Cairn de Barnenez Chamber D Annex — Southern Extension
Early Neolithic (4500-3800 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Cairn de Barnenez Chamber D Annex — Southern Extension in Brittany, Finistere, France is a Early Neolithic (4500-3800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith
Salkhityn Am Deer Stone Complex – Khovsgol
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Mongolian Late Bronze) · Deer Stone–Khirigsuur Culture
14 Classic deer stones (1400–700 BCE) — 4.2-m flight-deer stelae in Khovsgol valley.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
Early Formative 1500–900 BCE (San Lorenzo phase, Olmec apogee 1500–1200) · Olmec (Olmeca, earliest Gulf Olmec capital)
Earliest Olmec capital (1500–900 BCE) on 50 ha artificial plateau (700 m long) raised 50 m above floodplain with surrounding ditch and berm modification of natural hill, controlling Coatzacoalcos…
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
Basketmaker II–Pueblo III 1500 BCE–1300 CE (peak 1000–1300) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi, Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Largest archaeological landscape in US implying 30,000 people: 176,000-acre (71,200 ha) monument with 6,355 recorded sites – villages, cliff dwellings, kivas, towers and shrines from Basketmaker to…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huánuco Pampa
Inca Late Horizon 1460–1532 CE · Inca (Wanka mitma)
Inca storehouse city 500 qollqas on Qhapaq Ñan, 1460–1532 CE.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Nok Culture Sites (Taruga & Jemaa)
Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE; comparable to Carthage early) · Nok Culture (unknown language; possibly proto-Benue-Congo)
500 BCE terracotta heads with triangular eyes and elaborate coiffures plus earliest West African iron furnaces (13 at Taruga 700–400 BCE).
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ales Stones – Kåseberga Stone Ship
Late Iron Age Vendel–Viking transition · Scandinavian Late Vendel to Viking (pre-Christian)
59-stone 67-m Viking Age stone ship aligned solstitially over the Baltic at Kåseberga.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Grotte des Fees Dolmen Arles Annex — Northern Annex
Late Neolithic (3500-2500 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Grotte des Fees Dolmen Arles Annex — Northern Annex in Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France is a Late Neolithic (3500-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Alberite Interior Chamber North — Southern Extension
Middle Neolithic (3800-3200 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Dolmen de Alberite Interior Chamber North — Southern Extension in Andalusia, Cadiz, Spain is a Middle Neolithic (3800-3200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iberian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Hill of Caldback Chambered Cairn — Eastern Outlier
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Hill of Caldback Chambered Cairn — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Tholos de El Romeral Peripheral Dromos — Northern Annex
Chalcolithic (3200-2300 BCE) · Iberian Chalcolithic
Tholos de El Romeral Peripheral Dromos — Northern Annex in Andalusia, Malaga, Spain is a Chalcolithic (3200-2300 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iberian Chalcolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Cairn de Barnenez Chamber D Annex
Early Neolithic (4500-3800 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Cairn de Barnenez Chamber D Annex in Brittany, Finistere, France is a Early Neolithic (4500-3800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Barnenez South Passage Chamber
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Barnenez South Passage Chamber in Brittany, Ploudalmézeau, France is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Marietta Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell (100 BCE–500 CE) · Hopewell (Marietta phase)
Hopewell ceremonial complex (100 BCE–500 CE) at confluence of Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, originally three enclosures: Capitolium Square (150×110 m terraced platform and graded way), Quadranaou double…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Gettlinge Grave Field — Öland
Bronze Age to Viking Age (c.1000 BCE–1050 CE) · Baltic–Scandinavian (Gotland–Öland continuum)
Gettlinge, on the limestone alvar plain of southwest Öland, is a 2-km long grave field with 250+ monuments spanning late Bronze Age (c.1000 BCE) to Late Viking Age (c.1050 CE): a 30-m limestone ship…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Gudensberg-Maden Grave Field — Schwalm-Eder
Late Neolithic (Wartberg 3400–2800 BCE) · Wartberg
The Gudensberg-Maden cluster, on the basalt Odenberg plateau 15 km south of Kassel, is a Wartberg gallery grave field of at least three known 12–15 m gallery chambers (Maden I–III) and cist graves of…
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Kiusu Earthwork Burial Circles
Final Jomon 1200–800 BCE · Jomon Final Hokkaido
Late Jomon collective burial banked circles (1200–800 BCE) on terrace above Ushiku River at Chitose — 9 embanked circular enclosures diameter 12–75 m built of external ditch and internal bank housing…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Raqchi — Temple of Wiracocha
Inca Late Horizon 1430–1532 CE · Inca (Tawantinsuyu)
Inca temple 92 m, 11 m wall, 152 qollqas, Wiracocha oracle.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Xochicalco Archaeological Zone
Epiclassic 650–900 CE · Epiclassic central Mexican
Fortified hilltop Pyramid of Plumed Serpents, zenith cave, UNESCO 1999.