🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Trethevy Quoit Cornwall
Neolithic · Cornish Neolithic
Trethevy Quoit Cornwall at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Cornish Neolithic tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for 10.5 tonne capstone with hole.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn — Firth, Orkney
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Hurlers Stone Circles
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Bodmin Moor Bronze Age
Triple line of three Bronze Age granite circles (33–41.5 m) on Bodmin Moor with paired outlying stones.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Arthur's Stone, Gower (Maen Cetti)
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Severn-Cotswold / Gower Neolithic
Gower's 40-tonne conglomerate portal dolmen on Cefn Bryn ridge — largest capstone in Wales, split 1693.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Cairn du Petit Mont
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Three-phase promontory cairn (60 m) at Arzon with two superimposed passage graves and anthropomorphic art.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Megalith
Msoura Stone Circle
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1500 BCE) · Atlantic Megalithic / Bell Beaker
Msoura (Mzora) Cromlech is Morocco's sole Atlantic megalithic ellipse, 55×45 m of 175 menhirs encircling a 6-m tumulus, 25 km southeast of Asilah. Tallest monolith El Uted (The Pointer) 5.5 m.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Mané-Kerioned Passage Dolmens
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mané-Kerioned Passage Dolmens in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Nabta Playa Astronomical Site
Early Holocene Neolithic (~7500–3500 BCE) · Nubian Neolithic pastoralist (El Nabta culture)
Beside a fossil playa that filled during the African Humid Period, nomads erected a 5-m mini-Stonehenge of quartzite slabs and radial lines pointing to summer solstice sunrise and to Sirius/Arcturus.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Megalith
Petit-Chasseur Megalithic Necropolis
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Petit-Chasseur Megalithic Necropolis in Valais, Switzerland is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Ses Païsses — Artà Talayot Cliff Fort Menor? Actually Mallorca walled Village with Horseshoe Portal
Talayotic (1300 BCE early naveta S'Hospitalet to 650 BCE enclosing wall 360 m; Post-Talayotic 500 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca Artà (Ses Païsses talayotic village 9000 m² walled 360 m perimeter 3 m high with horseshoe portal 3.5 m)
Ses Païsses Artà 650 wall 360 m.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Tumulus
Medracen — Royal Mausoleum of Numidia
Numidian Late Iron Age (300–100 BCE) · Berber Numidian / Masseayli
Medracen (Madghacen) is the 19 m high bazina royal mausoleum of Numidian Berber kings (c.300 BCE), largest pre-Roman bazina in North Africa, 59 m diameter drum with 60 Doric half-columns and cornice,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cajamarquilla Pyramids
Early Intermediate Lima to Middle Horizon Wari 1–800 CE · Lima culture (later Wari influence)
167-ha tapia pyramid city, 1st–8th century CE Lima culture metropolis.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Cromlech da Portela de Mogos
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Cromlech da Portela de Mogos in Évora, Alentejo, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Tumulus
Djeddars of Frenda — Berber Royal Tombs
Late Antique Berber (Vandal–Byzantine–early Islamic transition) · Berber Christian/Jetar
Djeddars of Frenda are 13 Berber royal pyramid-mausoleums (4th–7th c CE) on two Tiaret plateau hills 30 km S of Tiaret, square bazina with pyramidal steps 20×20 m base, 18 m high with chapels and…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Mougau-Bihan Passage Grave
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mougau-Bihan Passage Grave in Brittany, Finistère, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Hagbard's Gallows (Hagbards Galge)
Middle to Late Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Halland)
Two 4.5 m 'gallows' menhirs plus 18 m circle and 25 m ship on Halland coastal plain — saga-linked cemetery.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Poulnabrone Dolmen
Early Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Lambay / Burren Neolithic)
Burren's iconic portal dolmen — 3.7 m capstone over 2.5 m chamber holding 33 Neolithic burials in limestone clint landscape.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Skateholm Mesolithic Cemetery
Mesolithic (7000–5000 BCE) · Ertebølle / Kongemose — Mesolithic hunter-gatherer
Iconic Late Mesolithic cemetery complex on former coastal lagoon in Scania, southern Sweden, with two cemeteries (Skateholm I and II) totalling ~65 graves (c.6000–5000 BCE).
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Mustatils of Northwest Arabia
Late Neolithic (~5500–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Arabian pastoralist
More than 1,600 elongated rectangular courtyard monuments – Arabic mustatil – stitched across 200,000 km² of Saudi desert between the Nefud and Red Sea, rendered visible only by satellite.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Zambujeiro — Cromlech Segment 3 (Évora)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Zambujeiro — Cromlech Segment 3 (Évora) in Alentejo, Évora, Portugal is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late …
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Mactaris (Makthar) – Numidian-Roman City
Numidian / Roman (Hellenistic to Late Antique) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Numidian–Roman hill city with neo-Punic mausoleum, dolmens and Trajan's arch.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation (Bronzo Medio/Recente)
UNESCO archetype nuraghe in central Sardinia — trilobate basalt tower with four bastions, tholos chambers and 55-hut village, 1500-1000 BCE.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta da Pedra da Orca
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Anta da Pedra da Orca in Guarda, Centro, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta de Santa Marta
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Anta de Santa Marta in Porto District, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.