🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Mine Howe
Iron Age (c.100 BCE–400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian) / possible Roman contact
Iron Age underground sanctuary in Tankerness with 29-step stair descending 7.5 m to a corbelled chamber.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sayburç
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler / Upper Mesopotamian PPN
Taş Tepeler PPN sanctuary with narrative leopard-human-phallus reliefs matching Karahan Tepe phallic imagery.
🇧🇪 Belgium · Megalith
Wéris Megalithic Field
Late Neolithic (3200–2500 BCE) · Seine-Oise-Marne (SOM) — Atlantic Neolithic
Concentrated group of two gallery dolmens (Wéris I and Oppagne), three menhir fields and the Danthine and Oppagne stone alignments on a 8 km ridge near Wéris in the Ardennes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Shunet el-Zebib Enclosure Abydos
Early Dynastic · 2nd Dynasty Egyptian
Shunet el-Zebib Enclosure Abydos at Abydos, Shunet el-Zebib, Egypt is a Early Dynastic megalithic of the 2nd Dynasty Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Isedotai Stone Circles
Late Jomon (2000–1000 BCE) · Late Jomon (northern Tōhoku)
Late Jomon ritual stone complex (c.2000–1700 BCE) at Kitaakita, Akita — four large stone circles (largest 45 m dia.) with 200+ river cobble andesite arrangements, sunken pit structures, and adjacent…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Moorehead Circle at Fort Ancient
Middle Woodland Hopewell (c.100 BCE–250 CE) with Fort Ancient reuse · Hopewell → Fort Ancient
Outer-embankment timber circle 60 m diameter discovered 2007 by magnetometry inside Fort Ancient Hilltop Enclosure (Hopewell 100 BCE–500 CE, later Fort Ancient reuse).
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Su Nuraxi — Peripheral Hut E7 with Bench
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Su Nuraxi — Peripheral Hut E7 with Bench in Sardinia, South Sardinia, Barumini, Italy is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic at…
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Central Nara Settlement A — Nara, Asuka (54-50)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Central Nara Settlement A — Nara, Asuka (54-50) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Chalcolithic (regional) megalithic of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Megalith
Outer Teotihuacan Sanctuary East — Teotihuacan (56-04)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Outer Teotihuacan Sanctuary East — Teotihuacan (56-04) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Iron Age (regional) megalithic of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowes of Trotty — Harray, Orkney
Early Bronze Age (c.2000–1500 BCE) · Orcadian Early Bronze Age (Beaker–Food Vessel)
The Knowes of Trotty (Early Bronze Age c.2000–1800 BCE) is a 1.5-m high burnt mound cemetery of 8 low barrows on the Harray lochside, famous 1858 excavation by George Petrie yielding the richest…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Megalith
Inner Teotihuacan Village B — Teotihuacan (56-36)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Inner Teotihuacan Village B — Teotihuacan (56-36) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Megalith
Lower Teotihuacan Platform I — Teotihuacan (56-33)
Classical (regional) · Classical
Lower Teotihuacan Platform I — Teotihuacan (56-33) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Classical (regional) megalithic of the Classical tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Temple Wood Stone Circles
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age
Paired Kilmartin circles (13 m and 12 m) tracing timber-to-stone transition c.3000–1000 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Pierres Plates — South Cairn Passage (Locmariaquer)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Pierres Plates — South Cairn Passage (Locmariaquer) in Brittany, Morbihan, Locmariaquer, France is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) meg…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro (Alentejo, Évora)
Middle Neolithic · Alentejo Megalithic
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro at Alentejo, Évora, Portugal is a Middle Neolithic megalithic of the Alentejo Megalithic tradition, built c. 4000 BCE for giant anta 7 pillars 6–8 m with 7 m capstone.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Luttra Ganggrift (Luttra Passage Grave)
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker (TRB) — Falbygden group
Falbygden passage grave — 9 m passage to 7 m limestone chamber within 19 m mound, c.3300 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Maes Howe Chambered Cairn Orkney
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Maes Howe Chambered Cairn Orkney at Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic of the Orcadian Neolithic tradition, built c. 2800 BCE for chambered cairn with viking runes.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Old Henan Citadel North — Henan, Erlitou (54-35)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Old Henan Citadel North — Henan, Erlitou (54-35) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Medieval (regional) megalithic of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Sacred Meroe Necropolis East — Meroe (56-31)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Sacred Meroe Necropolis East — Meroe (56-31) at Meroe, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) megalithic of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 800 CE for necropolis and associated settlement.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talaiot de Torralba d'en Salord — Alaior, Menorca
Bronze to Iron Talayotic (c.1200–300 BCE) · Talayotic Menorcan
Torralba d'en Salord (Talayotic c.1200–500 BCE) south of Alaior is a compact 3-ha talayotic ceremonial cluster with two talaiots (max 5 m high), a 5-m taula enclosure (taula pillar 4.98 m highest on…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Pömmelte Ring Sanctuary
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Bell Beaker → Únětice / Early Bronze Age
115 m Bell Beaker/Early Bronze Age ring sanctuary with seven concentric timber-ditch circles and ritual pits, c.2300 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Carnac — Le Ménec-Kerlescan Kerb Row Link Loop
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Carnac — Le Ménec-Kerlescan Kerb Row Link Loop in Brittany, Morbihan, Carnac, France is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic att…
🇲🇹 Malta · Temple complex
Ggantija Temples Gozo
Ġgantija phase · Maltese Temple Period
Ggantija Temples Gozo at Gozo, Xagħra, Malta is a Ġgantija phase temple complex of the Maltese Temple Period tradition, built c. 3600 BCE for two-cloverleaf megalithic temples 5 m orthostats.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nuraghe La Prisgiona
Late Bronze Age · Nuragic
Gallura nuraghe with meeting hut village near Arzachena in granite hill country, c.14th century BCE.