🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bryn Cader Faner
Early Bronze Age · Snowdonia Early Bronze Age
8.7 m Snowdonia crown cairn with 18 angled slate pillars and 2 m outlier — most photogenic Bronze Age tomb in Wales.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Multi-period: Neolithic to Medieval (c.2500 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age (Broch) → Pictish → Norse
4,000-year layered settlement mound at Shetland's southern tip with broch, wheelhouses, Viking longhouse and medieval farm.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Megalith
Zorats Karer (Carahunge)
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (~2000 BCE – 600 BCE; astronomical claims to 5500 BCE disputed) · Kura-Araxes / Trialeti to Urartian (southern Armenian Bronze Age)
221 basalt menhirs 0.5–2.8 m high form a central 45-m ellipse with 32-m straight avenue and northeast arm, plus an outlying circular tomb and dolmen-like cists.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Greby Grave Field
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Greby Grave Field in Västra Götaland, Sweden is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Sarup Causewayed Enclosure
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Sarup Causewayed Enclosure in Funen, Denmark is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Er-Roh Dolmen
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Er-Roh Dolmen 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.
🇫🇮 Finland · Megalith
Sammallahdenmäki Bronze Age Cairn Field
Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) · Scandinavian Bronze Age — Finnish coastal
Bronze Age burial site on a forested ridge uplifted from the sea near Rauma, inscribed UNESCO 1999.
🇬🇲 Gambia · Megalith
Stone Circles of Senegambia — Wassu Complex
Late Iron Age to Medieval (750–1000 CE peak) · Serer–Wolof proto-Jola / Senegambian megalithic
Wassu is the Gambian component of UNESCO Senegambian Stone Circles (1226, 2006) — 11 megalithic circles (4.5–6 m Ø) with 1–2 m laterite pillars (cylindrical, dressed with iron wedge) enclosing burial…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Tunanmarca
Late Intermediate Wanka (Xauxa) 1000–1460 CE · Wanka (Xauxa)
1,000-house Wanka honeycomb hilltop citadel, 1000–1460 CE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Monte d'Accoddi
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age, Ozieri/Abealzu-Filigosa (~4000–2700 BCE) · Ozieri (Late Neolithic Sardinian)
Mysterious 36-by-29-m truncated step pyramid of limestone fill on the Sardinian plain, accessed via a 42-m ramp to a summit altar where sacrifice deposits and a sandstone menhir were found.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dwarfie Stane
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rock-cut tomb carved from single 8.6 m boulder on Hoy, the only one in Britain, c.3000 BCE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Los Millares
Chalcolithic (Copper Age) · Los Millares culture
Copper Age fortified town near Almería (3200-2200 BCE) with walls, aqueduct and 80 tholos tombs defining Los Millares culture.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Externsteine
Natural Cretaceous (85 Ma); human modification medieval, hypothesized pre-Christian · Natural geology; medieval Christian hermitage; contested Germanic cult
Teutoburg Forest sandstone pillars with carved grottoes and medieval relief, debated as Germanic solar sanctuary.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Hjaltadans (Haltadans) Stone Circle
Early Bronze Age · Shetland Bronze Age
Fetlar's 11-stone circle (~9 m) on moorland ridge — one of Shetland's few stone circles.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chotuna–Chornancap
Middle Sicán to Chimú 700–1375 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque) then Chimú
Golden Priestess tomb within twin truncated pyramids, 700–1375 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Karnak Temple Complex
Middle Kingdom to Ptolemaic (c.2000 BCE–100 CE; major phase New Kingdom 1550–1070 BCE) · Egyptian Pharaonic (Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman)
Largest temple complex in Egypt – 200 acres built over 1,500 years from Senusret I (1956 BCE) to Romans.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Lanyon Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Penwith portal dolmen — 5.5 m capstone (12 t) on three 1.5 m uprights, collapsed 1815 and reset lower.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Megalith
Ikom Monoliths (Ejagham)
Late Iron Age to Modern (500–1800 CE) · Ejagham (Cross River)
Ikom Monoliths (Akwanshi, Ataal) are 300 basalt monoliths 0.3–1.8 m high carved 500–1800 CE by Ejagham peoples in Cross River forest, stylized janus faces, spiral navels and diadems around…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Creevykeel Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Court Tomb tradition (Western Neolithic Ireland)
55.5 m court tomb on Sligo coast — 13×10 m oval court to twin gallery, best preserved in northwest.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Naachtun
Maya Classic 150–950 CE · Maya (Naachtun/Masuul and K'an affiliation)
Strategic Classic Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, 150–950 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Rock Eagle Effigy Mound
Archaic–Woodland 1000 BCE–1000 CE · Woodland / Archaic
36.5-m quartz eagle effigy, 1000–500 BCE.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Nelakondapalli — Khammam Stupa
Early Historic (300 BCE–400 CE) · Satavahana-Ikshvaku
Nelakondapalli — Khammam Stupa in Telangana, Khammam, India is a Early Historic (300 BCE–400 CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana-Ikshvaku culture.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Phanigiri — Buddhist Mahastupa
Early Historic (1st–4th c. CE) · Satavahana-Ikshvaku
Phanigiri — Buddhist Mahastupa in Telangana, Suryapet, India is a Early Historic (1st–4th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana-Ikshvaku culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Son Fornés — Talayotic Three-Talayot Fortified Village Centre Mallorca
Talayotic (1000 BCE–100 BCE Son Fornés chiefdom; Talayot 1 1100 BCE, 2 500 BCE, 3 400 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca village with 105 iron swords hydria? Iron age 1100–100 BCE + Post-Talayotic 550 BCE houses
Son Fornés Gasperini 1970s, triple talayot 1100–400, 105 iron.