🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Baalbek — Heliopolis Trilithon & Temple
Roman (27 BCE–300 CE) · Roman
Baalbek — Heliopolis Trilithon & Temple in Baalbek-Hermel, Beqaa, Lebanon is a Roman (27 BCE–300 CE) temple complex attributed to Roman culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Avebury
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 Kingdom · Megalith
Birkrigg Stone Circle
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Cumbrian
Birkrigg Stone Circle in Cumbria, Furness, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Cumbrian culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Poverty Point (Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point)
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…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Rudston Monolith
Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) · Grooved Ware
Rudston Monolith in East Yorkshire, Wolds, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) megalithic attributed to Grooved Ware culture.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Great Wall of China (Ancient Segments)
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),…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Trethevy Quoit — Tremar
Neolithic (3500–3200 BCE) · Penwith chambered
Trethevy Quoit — Tremar in Cornwall, East Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (3500–3200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith chambered culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Whitehawk Camp
Early Neolithic (3650–3350 BCE) · Neolithic causewayed
Whitehawk Camp in East Sussex, South Coast, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3650–3350 BCE) earthwork attributed to Neolithic causewayed culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Merry Maidens Stone Circle — St Buryan
Late Neolithic – Bronze Age · Cornish Late Neolithic
Merry Maidens Stone Circle — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Cornish Late Neolithic.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Naikund — Vidarbha Iron Smelting Mound
Iron Age (700–400 BCE) · Vidarbha megalithic with iron technology
Naikund — Vidarbha Iron Smelting Mound in Maharashtra, India is a Iron Age (700–400 BCE) megalithic attributed to Vidarbha megalithic with iron technology.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dyffryn Ardudwy Burial Chamber
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
St Lythans Burial Chamber
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold
Portal dolmen near Cardiff with 35-tonne capstone on three orthostats, remnant of Severn-Cotswold long cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Uley Long Barrow
Early Neolithic (3800 BCE) · Cotswold-Severn
Uley Long Barrow in Gloucestershire, Cotswolds, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Cotswold-Severn culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Balnuaran of Clava Cairns
Early Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE) · Clava cairn tradition (Inverness Bronze Age)
Group of three Bronze Age circular chamber tombs (c. 2000 BCE) at Balnuaran of Clava, defining Clava cairn type: two passage graves with corbelled chambers and a central ring cairn, each within a…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Pipers — St Buryan
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Cornish Late Neolithic
The Pipers — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Cornish Late Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Tregiffian Burial Chamber — St Buryan
Late Neolithic (1900 BCE) · Scillonian-Cornish
Tregiffian Burial Chamber — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1900 BCE) megalithic attributed to Scillonian-Cornish.
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Thornborough Henges — Central Henge
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Yorkshire
Central of three Neolithic henges at Thornborough (c. 3500–2500 BCE), 240 m diameter earthwork with outer bank and inner ditch aligned with northern and southern henges on River Ure terrace.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Zennor Quoit — Penwith Moor
Neolithic (2500 BCE) · Penwith
Zennor Quoit — Penwith Moor in Cornwall, West Penwith, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith culture. Detailed survey and excavation document architectural phasing.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Junapani — Nagpur Stone Circle Field
Iron Age megalithic (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Vidarbha megalithic
Junapani — Nagpur Stone Circle Field in Maharashtra, India is a Iron Age megalithic (1000 BCE–300 CE) megalithic attributed to Vidarbha megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Coldrum Long Barrow
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
Nan Madol
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…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Boscawen-Ûn Stone Circle
Late Neolithic – Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
Boscawen-Ûn Stone Circle in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Penwith Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Chûn Quoit — Penwith
Neolithic (2400 BCE) · Penwith
Chûn Quoit — Penwith in Cornwall, West Penwith, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (2400 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith culture. Detailed survey and excavation document architectural phasing.