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🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
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…
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Jersey Passage Grave
Passage grave on Mont Ubé hill, St Clement, Jersey, rectangular chamber, c.4000 BCE.
🇬🇬 Guernsey · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Guernsey Passage Grave
Largest passage grave on Guernsey, L'Ancresse Common, 10 m chamber with side cells, c.4000 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Intermediate 1100–1470 CE Chachapoya · Chachapoyas
Remote fortified town on Achil ridge between Utcubamba and Huabayacu tributaries of Marañón: 60 circular houses, watchtower 8 m diameter on ridge apex, and 150 m defensive wall with parapet.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Viking Age · Jelling Dynasty (Gorm & Harald Bluetooth)
Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church in South Denmark, Vejle Municipality, Denmark is a Viking Age megalithic attributed to Jelling Dynasty (Gorm & Harald Bluetooth) culture.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Tang Dynasty 713–803 CE · Tang Chinese Buddhist (Maitreya cult)
71 m seated Maitreya monolith (713–803 CE) carved into Lingyun red sandstone cliff at confluence of Min and Dadu rivers, largest premodern Buddha worldwide.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian, Etowah phase 1000–1550 CE · Mississippian (Muscogean ancestors)
19-m Mississippian Temple mound with copper falcon plates and marble effigies.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Preseli Early Neolithic
Wales' largest portal dolmen with 16-tonne capstone on three 2.4 m orthostats.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Pallava Dynasty 580–728 CE (Mamalla and Rajasimha phases) · Tamil / Pallava Hindu (Shaiva/Vaishnava)
Pallava (7th–8th c CE) coastal temple town with 40 rock-cut shrines: Shore Temple granite seaside, Five Rathas monolithic chariot-temples cut from single boulders, Arjuna's Penance 27 m bas-relief,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Remnant chamber of Medway long barrow above River Medway — three sarsens supporting 3.5 m capstone.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
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…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold Neolithic
Severn-Cotswold long cairn near Cardiff with Britain's largest capstone at 40 tonnes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Two-phase Neolithic long barrow near Uffington with sarsen passage grave overlain on earlier oval mound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Irish Sea Passage Tomb tradition
Anglesey passage tomb with 8.4 m passage aligned to midsummer sunrise and decorated spiral stone.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest megalithic stone circle in Europe (11.5 ha), enclosing outer bank and ditch and two inner circles. Village of Avebury sits partially within the monument.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Archaic 1700–1100 BCE (peak 1500–1200 BCE) · Poverty Point culture
Late Archaic earthwork complex (1700–1100 BCE) with six concentric C-shaped ridges (1.2 km outer diameter) and six mounds, including 22 m-high Mound A – one of largest Archaic earthworks in North…
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Warring States to Han Dynasty 7th c BCE – 220 CE (early segments); Ming 1368–1644 (classic brick) · Han Chinese (Qin, Han dynasties)
World's longest wall system (21,196 km including branches) with earliest rammed-earth frontier walls from Warring States and Han (7th c BCE–2nd c CE) preserved in Gansu corridor (Han Dunhuang walls),…
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Geological: Early Miocene sandstone (20 Ma) formation; if artificial, claimed Jomon or earlier (10,000–2000 BCE) · Disputed – natural geology vs hypothetical Jomon / lost Pacific civilization
Submerged sandstone formation off Yonaguni Island discovered 1986 featuring stepped terraces up to 27 m high, flat surfaces and apparent right angles at 25–30 m depth, extending ~150×40 m.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Irish Sea Neolithic
Double portal dolmen in Snowdonia foothills with two capstones sharing a mound near Cardigan Bay.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold
Portal dolmen near Cardiff with 35-tonne capstone on three orthostats, remnant of Severn-Cotswold long cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Best-preserved Medway rectangular long barrow with kerb and sarsen chamber on North Downs.
🇫🇲 Federated States of Micronesia · Archaeological wonder
Saudeleur Dynasty 1200–1500 CE; construction ~1180–1628 · Pohnpeian / Saudeleur
Abandoned basalt-and-coral city covering 18 km² of reef flats southeast of Pohnpei with ~92 artificial islets bounded by sea walls and tidal canals, with walls up to 8 m high built from columnar…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Megalith
Late prehistory to early classical; accepted 2000 BCE–1500 CE oral claims; controversial Pleistocene claim 25,000 BCE · Austronesian / Sundanese prehistoric; possibly pre-Hindu Javanese
Stepped hilltop punden berundak (terraced pyramid) with five basalt column terraces, retaining walls and standing stones covering 150×45 m at 885 m elevation; upper structures dated 45 BCE–22 CE,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill culture
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Windmill Hill culture culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 373).
