🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Menhir de Kerloas
Late Neolithic (c.5000–4000 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Brittany)
Europe's tallest upright menhir (9.5 m, 150 t) — Brittany granite giant with twin basal bosses, lightning-shorn.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Tumulus
Ladby Ship Burial — Kerteminde, Funen
Viking Age (Late, c.925 CE) · Danish Viking (Jelling dynasty)
The Ladby ship (c.925 CE) is Denmark's only surviving Viking ship burial, a 21.5-m clinker warship set within a mound 230 m south of Kerteminde Fjord on Funen, excavated in 1934–35 by conservator G.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Inga Stone South
Late Archaic to Early Ceramic (5000 – 2000 BCE disputed) · Pre-ceramic Nordeste
Inga Stone South in Paraíba, Brazil is a Late Archaic to Early Ceramic (5000 – 2000 BCE disputed) rock art attributed to Pre-ceramic Nordeste culture.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Cluster K
Early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) · Irish Neolithic
Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Cluster K in County Sligo, Ireland is a Early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Irish Neolithic.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Kudatini (Ash Mound)
Southern Neolithic 2800–1200 BCE → Megalithic 1000 BCE · Southern Neolithic Ash Mound → Megalithic
Giant 15 m ash mound (2800–1200 BCE) at Kudatini Ballari — three-burnt dung lenses with megalithic circle on summit.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus Saint-Michel at Carnac
Middle Neolithic (c.5000–3500 BCE) · Carn / Tumulus Culture (Early Armorican Neolithic)
Giant 125 m × 12 m tumulus covering passage grave (c.4500 BCE) with 39 jadeite axes — Brittany's largest mound at Carnac.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Brú na Bóinne Satellite Cairn Z
Late Neolithic (3200-2900 BCE) · Irish Neolithic
Brú na Bóinne Satellite Cairn Z in County Meath, Ireland is a Late Neolithic (3200-2900 BCE) megalithic attributed to Irish Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Mané-er-Hroëk Tumulus — Locmariaquer
Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3900 BCE) · Carnac–Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Mané-er-Hroëk (Neolithic c.4500–3900 BCE) crowns the Mané-er-Hroëk hill 800 m northeast of Locmariaquer village, a 100-m long trapezoidal passage grave under a 25-m high?
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nuraghe Arrubiu Bastion D Annex
Bronze Age (1800-800 BCE) · Nuragic Culture
Nuraghe Arrubiu Bastion D Annex in Sardinia, Nuoro, Italy is a Bronze Age (1800-800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Nuragic Culture.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Hwangnam Daechong (Twin Tombs)
Three Kingdoms Silla 4th–6th c CE → Unified Silla · Silla Three Kingdoms (Gyeongju Hwangnam)
Hwangnam Daechong — largest Silla royal twin mound tomb (5th–6th c CE, Silla middle period) 800 m south Wolseong palace, Gyeongju Tumuli Park, excavated 1973–75 Cultural Heritage Administration…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Písac (Písaq)
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1530 CE (built under Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui) · Inca (Quechua, Late Horizon, Sacred Valley expansion)
Inca royal estate and agricultural terraces considered among finest Inca ashlar engineering beyond Machu Picchu: Intihuatana (Sun-hitching stone) solstice-gnomon ridge, Qalla Q'asa fortress on…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Mactaris (Makthar)
Numidian to Byzantine (8th c BCE-10th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Highland city with dolmens and schola.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Alcalar Megalithic Necropolis — Portimão
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Algarve Chalcolithic (Los Millares–Vila Nova de São Pedro group)
Alcalar (Chalcolithic 3000–2500 BCE) is a fortified hilltop settlement and 18-mound necropolis crowning the Alcalar ridge between Portimão and Lagos, Algarve, with the massive Monument 7 tholos: a…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Presaddfed Burial Chamber
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey
Twin Neolithic chamber tombs in single long cairn near Presaddfed — west chamber with 5 m capstone best preserved.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Tiddis (Castellum Tidditanorum)
Numidian / Roman (Berber stronghold to late antique) · Numidian / Roman
Cliff-hanging Berber-Roman 'mini Delphi' on Guelaa plateau with stepped streets, bazina tombs and aqueducts.
🇦🇹 Austria · Megalith
Ziersdorf Passage Grave — Lower Austria
Late Neolithic (Lengyel to Early Baden, c.3500–3300 BCE) · Lengyel late / Epilengyel–Baden
The Ziersdorf passage grave (Lengyel/Baden transition c.3500–3300 BCE) is Austria's most northerly megalithic tomb, a 5-m limestone chamber with 1.8-m passage within a 12-m round mound on the…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Lough Gur Stone Circle (Grange)
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.2500–2000 BCE) · Late Neolithic / Chalcolithic Limerick
Ireland's largest stone circle (46 m, 113 stones) — embanked, contiguous orthostats on Lough Gur shore.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Crosskirk Broch
Early Iron Age to Norse (c.600 BCE–900 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Norse
Eroded Caithness cliff broch with early fort, broch tower and Norse layers; half lost to sea after 1960s excavation.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Choquequirao — Northern Terrace Coriwayrachina Saddle Sector
Late Horizon Inca (c.1450 – 1572 CE) · Inca (Quechua) Pachacuti — Tupac Yupanqui
Choquequirao northern Coriwayrachina saddle — Inca terraces 4 m and quartz llama enclosures across saddle from central plaza.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Fritzlar-Züschen Gallery Grave — Schwalm-Eder
Late Neolithic (Wartberg 3400–2900 BCE) · Wartberg
The Züschen gallery grave (c.3400–3000 BCE, Wartberg), just east of Fritzlar near the Eder, is a 20.5-m masterpiece, Germany's longest gallery tomb, with 30 sandstone orthostats enclosing a chamber…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park
Middle Woodland 1–500 CE (Pinson phase) · Middle Woodland (Pinson Mound culture, Hopewell-influenced)
Largest grouping of platform mounds in Tennessee and largest Middle Woodland earthwork complex: 17 mounds (12 platform, burial, effigy) in 1,200-acre Forked Deer River park, with Saul's Mound (Sauls’…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Huaytará Inca Temple (Huaytara)
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (c.1440–1532 CE) · Inca (Pachacuti – Huanca integration)
Intact Inca palace-temple (1450–1530, Inca Pachacuti–Topa period) uniquely fused with Spanish church San Juan Bautista (1570s): walls 3 m thick coursed imperial Inca ashlar with 28 trapezoidal niches…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Matarrubilla — Valencina
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2800 BCE) · Valencina Chalcolithic (Guadalquivir millares group)
Dolmen de Matarrubilla (Chalcolithic c.3000–2800 BCE) on the Aljarafe plateau above Valencina, Seville, is a 34-m corridor tholos with dry-stone chamber 2 m diameter capped by a 2-m granite capstone…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus
Bayan-Ula Khirigsuur & Deer Stone Valley – Khentii
Late Bronze to Early Iron · Deer Stone–Khirigsuur / Ulaanzuukh
45 khirigsuurs + 9 deer stones (1350–750 BCE) in Khentii sacred valley — double satellite circles.