🇮🇱 Israel · Megalith
Forge Dolmen
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Forge Dolmen in Negev, Israel is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Moral-Reforma
Maya Classic Late 600–800 CE · Maya (Moral-Reforma polity)
Twin Maya temples on San Pedro River, 300 BCE–900 CE.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Ville-ès-Nouaux Dolmen
Middle to Late Neolithic · Jersey Neolithic
Urban dolmen and cist-in-circle complex in St Helier, Jersey, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Legananny Portal Tomb
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb tradition
Tripod portal tomb on drumlin near Castlewellan, County Down, massive capstone on three slender portals, c.3500 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Menhir de Champ-Dolent
Early to Middle Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Tallest menhir in Brittany — 9.3 m rose granite monolith near Dol-de-Bretagne, c.5000 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Sillustani
Late Intermediate to Inca 1200–1450 CE · Colla (Aymara) succeeded by Inca
12-m funerary towers in finely jointed stone above lake - Andes highest chullpas.
🇦🇺 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…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ekornavallen Grave Field
Middle Neolithic to Viking Age · Funnel Beaker → Bronze Age → Iron Age Scandinavia
3000-year grave field with Neolithic Girommen passage grave, Bronze cairn, Iron Age settings and Viking ship in one meadow.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Holm of Papa Westray South Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic (Bookan tradition)
10 m round Bookan-type chamber with three cells, 200 m south of paired North long cairn.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
Taputapuātea Marae Complex
Early Marae 1000–1500 CE classical Polynesian (peak 1350–1773) · Polynesian / Ra'iātean (Ma'ohi)
Polynesia's most sacred marae center (1000–1773 CE) on 31 ha lagoon peninsula tip Taputapuatea, with 60×45 m marae Taputapuatea (stone national marae) and 16 other marae including Hauviri and Opoa,…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Megalith
Dolmen de Glen Spur
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Dolmen de Glen Spur in Petén, Guatemala is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Les Platons Dolmen
Early Neolithic · Jersey Passage Grave
Inland hilltop passage grave on Les Platons, Trinity, Jersey, upland sited, c.3800 BCE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Luma Standing Stones
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Luma Standing Stones in Sicily, Italy is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Nazca culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Teotenango
Epiclassic–Postclassic 900–1521 CE · Matlatzinca (Otomanguean)
Volcano-plug fortified Matlatzinca capital with 2 km perimeter wall, jaguar relief and Aztec barracks 1474.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ballyalton Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Rock-outcrop court tomb east of Downpatrick, type site for Ballyalton bowls, c.4000 BCE.
🇦🇺 Australia · Megalith
Wurdi Youang Stone Arrangement
Wathaurong estimated pre-contact >11,000 years? Potentially 5,000–10,000 BP; verified historical · Wathaurong Aboriginal
50 m egg-shaped (~50×35 m) stone arrangement with 100 basalt boulders (20 kg–500 kg) with Aboriginal Wathaurong alignment to equinox and solstice sunsets over distinct outlier stones.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Anundshög Burial Mound
Iron Age to Viking Age · Late Germanic Iron Age / Viking Age Svear
Sweden's largest burial mound — 14 m high with five stone ships and runestone, Iron Age to Viking royal cemetery.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney Cromarty stalled tradition
Rousay stalled cairn — 13 m seven-compartment chamber under 22 m mound on south coast.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Blomsholm Stone Ship
Late Iron Age (with Neolithic antecedent landscape) · Late Iron Age Bohuslän
41 m stone ship of 49 granite blocks near Strömstad, one of Scandinavia's largest, among 26 graves.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Megalith
Mound 72 Beaded Burial Extension — Southern Alluvium (Nasiriyah)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Mound 72 Beaded Burial Extension in Southern Alluvium, Iraq is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus de Bougon
Early to Middle Neolithic · Atlantic Early Neolithic / Cerny
Necropolis of six tumuli A-F spanning 4800-3000 BCE, including oldest megalithic building in western France.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Badaling Great Wall
Ming Dynasty 1505 (Jiajing) rebuild over Northern Qi core · Ming Han Chinese
Best-preserved Ming Great Wall pass (1505) at 1,015 m Juyongguan defile north of Beijing, 7.8 m high crenellated brick-stone ramparts with 19 watchtowers, widened for five horses abreast and beacon…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park
Woodland Weeden Island 200–800 CE · Weeden Island (Swift Creek)
14 m platform mound, largest Woodland mound in Florida, 200–800 CE.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Le Couperon Dolmen
Middle Neolithic · Jersey Gallery Grave
Gallery grave near Gorey guardhouse (1689), St Martin, Jersey, 6 m gallery, coastal, c.3500 BCE.