🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Filitosa
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age · Corsican Megalithic → Torréen (Bronze Age)
Corsican valley site with Torréen statue-menhirs bearing sculpted swords and faces protected by cyclopean towers, 3500-1200 BCE.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Megalith
Ikom Monoliths — Alok Akwanshi Stone Field
Iron Age to Early Modern (200–1800 CE) · Ekoi / Ejagham (Legbok)
Ikom Monoliths are >300 basalt volcanic monoliths 1–1.8 m tall arranged in 30 circles (each 6 m Ø with 12 phallic pillars) around Ikom and Alok, dated 1st–18th c CE, uniquely carved with facial…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Hillfort Dolmen
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Hillfort Dolmen in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) megalithic attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Lehedzyne Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Trypillia BI–BII (c.4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Trypillia BI)
One of the classic Trypillia BI mega-sites near Lehedzyne (Legedzine), 90 ha with ~1100+ houses identified by magnetometry, excavated and famously reconstructed as a full-scale burning experiment in…
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Hunebed D27 Borger
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker Culture West Group (TRB)
Netherlands' largest hunebed — 22.6 m passage grave with 9 capstones of Scandinavian erratics, c.3400 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Kilfeaghan Portal Tomb
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Portal Tomb
Low-set portal tomb above Carlingford Lough near Rostrevor, 35-40 ton capstone, among heaviest in Ireland.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Wamanmarca
Wari to Inca 1000–1532 CE · Wari–Cusco–Inca
Terraced Wari–Inca ushnu spring shrine on Cusco–Abancay road, 1000–1532 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Megalith
Ras Standing Stones
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ras Standing Stones in Petén, Guatemala is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Point of Cott Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Coastal long stalled cairn on Westray eroding at Point of Cott, c.3600 BCE.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Borobudur Temple Compounds
Mataram Sailendra c.780–830 CE · Central Javanese Buddhist (Sailendra/Mataram)
Mahayana Buddhist mandala-mountain (c.775–825 CE) of Sailendra/early Mataram, 34.5 m high terraced pyramid with 2,672 relief panels (longest Buddhist narrative reliefs 2.5 km) and 504 Buddha statues.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Megalith
Dolmen de Wadi Settlement
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Dolmen de Wadi Settlement in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Nazca culture.
🇷🇺 Russia · Megalith
Great Salbyk Kurgan
Tagar culture, Scythian (~800–200 BCE; Salbyk 500 BCE) · Tagar (Scythian-Siberian, Khakass steppe)
So-called Siberian Stonehenge: a 71-m square enclosure of standing Devonian sandstone slabs weighing up to 50 tonnes enclosing a truncated pyramid kurgan 12 m high.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Hetty Pegler's Tump (Uley Long Barrow)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow on Uley escarpment, 37 m with transepted chambers, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn
Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Zennor Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Ruinous 12.8 m mound dolmen on Zennor Hill with slipped 4.8 m capstone over 3.5 m chamber.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen des Pierres Folles (Commequiers)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Vendée Atlantic
18 m gallery grave (allée couverte) near Commequiers, Vendée, Pierre Folle road, 3000 BCE.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Megalith
Dolmen de Cave
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Dolmen de Cave in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) megalithic attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Maeshowe-type hilltop cairn on Eday with four side cells, c.3200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Castlerigg Stone Circle
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria / Langdale axe network
Late Neolithic flattened circle of 38 stones near Keswick with rectangular eastern enclosure and fells panorama.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Pavia — Anta do Pavia Hall Dolmen with Chapel Inside
Neolithic (3000 BCE) later Christian chapel 17th c. built inside dome 17th conversion of Pavia Dolmen Saint Dionísio · Alentejo Neolithic + Christian repurpose
Pavia church-dolmen 1640 Alentejo syncretism chapel-dolmen.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Karajía Sarcophagi
Chachapoya Late Intermediate 1100–1480 CE · Chachapoya
2.5-m anthropomorphic sarcophagi on 2600-m cliff, 1100–1480 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
El Zotz
Maya Late Classic 350–900 CE · Maya (Pa'Chan dynasty, Tikal–Teotihuacan linked)
Hilltop city with Diablos Pyramid sun-god masks, 300 BCE–900 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish IV (Ceann Hulabhaig)
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Six-stone flattened circle (13.3×9.5 m) with central robbed cairn, 2.2 km south of Callanish I.
🇦🇺 Australia · Archaeological wonder
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
Gunditjmara continuous 6,600–6,000 BCE to present (dated 6,700 BP Muldoon trap) · Gunditjmara Aboriginal Australian
Gunditjmara aquaculture over 6,600 years on Budj Bim basalt lava flow (30,000-year-old volcano) with 750 m of stone channels, weirs and eel traps (kooyang) manipulating Lake Condah wetlands.