🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Hembury Ware
Type-site causewayed enclosure 2 km from Avebury — three interrupted ditch circuits enclosing 8.5 ha.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Ollape
Late Intermediate Period 1000–1470 CE, Chachapoya culture before Inca conquest · Chachapoyas (Sachapuyos)
UNESCO tentative Chachapoyas 13-site serial nomination component 02 Ollape: hilltop citadel 5 ha at La Jalca with 100+ circular houses (diameter 4–7 m) with friezes of rhombic and zigzag stone inlay,…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Pomoná
Maya Late Classic 600–900 CE · Maya (Pomoná Pacbul?)
Hill-terraced Maya port with Palenque war record, 600–900 CE.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Temple complex
El Fuerte de Samaipata Annex
Mojocoyas 300–800 CE to Inca 1450–1535 to Spanish 1600s · Chané-Mojocoyas to Inca (Andean-Amazon transition) to Spanish contact
Annex 60 m south of great rock table (220×60 m sculpted sandstone) at UNESCO El Fuerte de Samaipata (1998): terraced annex with 15 Inca-style niches, kallanka great hall 22 m long, and Chané jaguar…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Rollright Stones
Early Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age · Cotswold Neolithic to Beaker
Neolithic-Bronze Age complex with King's Men circle, Whispering Knights dolmen and King Stone monolith on Cotswold ridge.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
Lower Paleolithic 100,000 BCE to Early Historic 1st c BCE (Mesolithic art 10,000–5000 BCE) · Early Indian hunter-gatherer to Mesolithic
Seven hills of Vindhyan sandstone with >750 painted rock shelters spanning Lower Paleolithic to Historical (100,000 BCE–1st c BCE), including Auditorium Cave with cupules and Zoo Rock.
🇪🇬 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Watson Brake Mound — Ohio Valley (Chillicothe)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Watson Brake Mound in Ohio Valley, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
La Venta Outlier
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
La Venta Outlier in Atacama, Chile is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Lácara
Late Neolithic · Alentejo-Extremadura Megalithic
Large Extremadura passage dolmen with 4.5 m granite orthostats and 14 m corridor near Mérida, c.3500 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Lepsius Mound Outlier — Chancay (Lima)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Lepsius Mound Outlier in Chancay, Peru is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age 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.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Alentejo — Almendres Cromlech Western Europe's Largest Stone Circle
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE earliest Almendres 6000 alley; cromlech 5000 BCE) · Alentejo Neolithic Almendres (Cardial) and later
Almendres Gromlech Sofia's largest Iberian, 6000 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Vilcabamba — Espíritu Pampa (Last Capital of the Inca)
Wari → Inca → Neo-Inca 1200–1572 CE · Neo-Inca (Manco Inca)
Last Neo-Inca capital 1536–1572, 12 ha jungle city.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Konark Sun Temple
Eastern Ganga 1243–1255 CE · Odia / Kalinga Hindu (Surya)
13th-century (1243–1255 CE) Kalinga-style Sun temple built as colossal 30-m high chariot of Surya with 24 giant stone wheels (9.5 ft sundials) pulled by seven horses, originally 68 m shikhara…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Kotosh Archaeological Site — Temple of the Crossed Hands
Late Archaic–Initial 2300–1200 BCE · Kotosh–Mito tradition
Crossed Hands temple 1800 BCE, 10 superimposed Mito temples.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
High Bank Works
Hopewell Middle Woodland 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition
Circle-octagon pair 320 m circle, UNESCO 2023.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Chacmultún Archaeological Zone
Maya Classic–Postclassic 300 BCE–1500 CE · Maya (Puuc–Chenés)
Red hill palaces 44 m portico, hematite, Puuc-Toltec 600–1000 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Paramonga Fortress
Chimú – Late Intermediate 1200–1532 CE · Chimú → Inca
Chimú hill-fort four walls, Inca tambo after 1470.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Stele of Gwanggaeto — Ji'an Memorial Inscription
Goguryeo (414 CE erected) · Goguryeo (King Jangsu for Gwanggaeto)
Ji'an 414 CE stele re-discovered 1875, textual key to 4th-c Korea-Manchuria-Japan, UNESCO buffer.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 189
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 189 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 993
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 993 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 83
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 83 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bant's Carn Entrance Grave — St Mary's
Early Bronze Age · Scillonian Bronze Age
Bant's Carn Entrance Grave — St Mary's in Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom is a Early Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Scillonian Bronze Age.