🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Izapa
Late Formative 1500 BCE–100 CE (Izapa style) · Mixe-Zoque? / early Maya (Izapan)
90 stelae with Popol Vuh genesis narrative, 1500 BCE–100 CE.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Mactaris (Makthar) – Numidian-Roman City
Numidian / Roman (Hellenistic to Late Antique) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Numidian–Roman hill city with neo-Punic mausoleum, dolmens and Trajan's arch.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Gre Fılla
PPNA to Early PPNB · Upper Tigris PPN (Göbekli sphere northern fringe)
Upper Tigris PPNA village with three T-pillar buildings and skull cult, salvage-saved from Ambar Dam.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Hopeton Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100 BCE–500 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell 22 ha circle-square with 321 m Great Circle, UNESCO 2023 unit-of-measure type-site.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bryn Cader Faner
Early Bronze Age · Snowdonia Early Bronze Age
8.7 m Snowdonia crown cairn with 18 angled slate pillars and 2 m outlier — most photogenic Bronze Age tomb in Wales.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Megalith
Zorats Karer (Carahunge)
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (~2000 BCE – 600 BCE; astronomical claims to 5500 BCE disputed) · Kura-Araxes / Trialeti to Urartian (southern Armenian Bronze Age)
221 basalt menhirs 0.5–2.8 m high form a central 45-m ellipse with 32-m straight avenue and northeast arm, plus an outlying circular tomb and dolmen-like cists.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Tunanmarca
Late Intermediate Wanka (Xauxa) 1000–1460 CE · Wanka (Xauxa)
1,000-house Wanka honeycomb hilltop citadel, 1000–1460 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Plazuelas
Epiclassic Bajío 600–900 CE · Bajío Tradition (Northern frontier)
Hilltop city with 1,324 rock-carved building models, 600–900 CE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Monte d'Accoddi
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age, Ozieri/Abealzu-Filigosa (~4000–2700 BCE) · Ozieri (Late Neolithic Sardinian)
Mysterious 36-by-29-m truncated step pyramid of limestone fill on the Sardinian plain, accessed via a 42-m ramp to a summit altar where sacrifice deposits and a sandstone menhir were found.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Los Millares
Chalcolithic (Copper Age) · Los Millares culture
Copper Age fortified town near Almería (3200-2200 BCE) with walls, aqueduct and 80 tholos tombs defining Los Millares culture.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Externsteine
Natural Cretaceous (85 Ma); human modification medieval, hypothesized pre-Christian · Natural geology; medieval Christian hermitage; contested Germanic cult
Teutoburg Forest sandstone pillars with carved grottoes and medieval relief, debated as Germanic solar sanctuary.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Oyu Stone Circles
Late Jomon 2000–1500 BCE · Jomon Late
Twin Late Jomon double-stone circles (2000–1500 BCE) — Manza (46 m dia) and Nonakado (42 m dia) placed either side of prefectural road at Oyu, Kazuno, each concentric with sundial-like 2.1 m central…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sefer Tepe
PPNA · Taş Tepeler PPN
Taş Tepeler T-pillar quarry hill with unfinished 5 m blanks still attached to bedrock.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Lanyon Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Penwith portal dolmen — 5.5 m capstone (12 t) on three 1.5 m uprights, collapsed 1815 and reset lower.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Karleby Passage Graves
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB)
Falbygden cluster core — trapezoidal dolmen Ragnvald's Grave and 28 passage graves on limestone plateau, c.3300 BCE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Naachtun
Maya Classic 150–950 CE · Maya (Naachtun/Masuul and K'an affiliation)
Strategic Classic Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, 150–950 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Rock Eagle Effigy Mound
Archaic–Woodland 1000 BCE–1000 CE · Woodland / Archaic
36.5-m quartz eagle effigy, 1000–500 BCE.
🇪🇬 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.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Kerzerho Alignments
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
1.1 km Morbihan alignment of 190 menhirs in 10 rows south of Kerzerho, with circular enclosure and dolmens.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Saywite Monolith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo Grande de Nevada (Lost City)
Ancestral Pueblo Virgin branch Basketmaker III–Pueblo II · Ancestral Pueblo (Virgin Anasazi / Ancestral Pueblo)
100-room Virgin Anasazi pueblo complex partly drowned by Lake Mead, 300 BCE–1150 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Marcahuasi Plateau
Late Intermediate to Inca 900–1470 CE for human chullpas; natural rocks Tertiary · Wari-Associates?/Yauyo to Inca; natural geology Tertiary volcanics
4000-m 'stone forest' of giant natural pareidolic rocks and chullpa tombs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Stonehenge Cursus
Early Neolithic 3800–3600 BCE · Early Neolithic Britons
2.7-km Neolithic processional enclosure predating Stonehenge by 500 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Merry Maidens Stone Circle
Early Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone graded granite circle (23.8 m) near Lamorna with two Pipers outlying stones.