🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Table des Marchands — Locmariaquer Passage Grave
Neolithic (4000–3500 BCE) · Morbihan megalithic
Flagship Morbihan passage grave, capstone once part of broken Grand Menhir of Er Grah, decorated with hook and hatchet carvings.
🇱🇧 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.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Carrowmore — Listoghil Central Dolmen
Neolithic (3700 BCE) · Irish Neolithic / Carrowmore
Carrowmore's centre excavated by P. Woodman 1977–82, dolmen with boulder circle and passage facing Knocknarea's Queen Maeve cairn.
🇬🇧 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Ventarrón Archaeological Complex
Initial Period 2500–500 BCE · Early coastal Formative
Deer-net mural 2000 BCE, oldest in Americas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Sechín Bajo Archaeological Site
Late Archaic–Initial 3500–1500 BCE · Casma-Sechín tradition
First Plaza 3500 BCE, Third Platform 16 m × 300 m.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Finest Orkney chambered cairn: 36 m mound, long passage, corbelled chamber. Midwinter sunset illuminates chamber. Bears 12th-century Viking runic inscriptions (>30).
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Pedra da Arca — Pino do Val Cromlech Group 7 Dolmens with Mastiff
Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE group 7 dolmens in 1 km) · Galician Neolithic cluster Pedra da Arca 7 tombs
Pedra da Arca 7 dolmens cluster.
🇬🇧 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.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Menhir da Meada — Largest Standing Stone Iberia and Atlantic Europe 7.15 m
Neolithic (5000–4000 BCE menhir of 7.15 m phallic Bernardus hill) · Alentejo Neolithic menhir carver 5000 BCE
Meada menhir 1990 inspection largest Iberia 7.15 m 18 t.
🇬🇧 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Kuntur Wasi Archaeological Complex
Initial–Early Horizon 1000–250 BCE · Kuntur Wasi tradition
Gold-temple four platforms, gold burials 800 BCE.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Megalith
El Ghaddar — Old Awkar Stone Cairn Fields Mauretania
Neolithic to Iron (3500 BCE–800 CE tumuli sequence) · Saharan Neolithic to Berber/Garamantian fringe
Awkar surveyed by Vernet & Naffé 1990s, tumuli chain 1000.
🇮🇳 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
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.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Alcalar Chalcolithic Megalithic Necropolis
Chalcolithic (3000–2000 BCE) · Alcalar / Bell Beaker
Algarve's leading Chalcolithic centre excavated by Estácio da Veiga 1880s, with slate plaques, copper tools and ivory.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Loughcrew — Cairn L Passage Tomb Slieve na Calliagh
Neolithic (3300 BCE) · Loughcrew Neolithic
Slieve na Calliagh Cairn L excavated by Conwell 1860s, sun beam at equinox lights chamber art, Hag's Chair kerbstone.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nuraghe Santu Antine Torralba — Great Tower
Bronze Age Nuragic (1600–1100 BCE) · Nuragic
Sardinia's 'Sardinian palace' excavated by Taramelli 1933–38, restored 3-storey keep with corbel vault and concentric corridor bastion.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Stele of Gwanggaeto — Ji'an Memorial Inscription
Goguryeo (414 CE erected) · Goguryeo (King Jangsu for Gwanggaeto)
Ji'an 414 CE stele re-discovered 1875, textual key to 4th-c Korea-Manchuria-Japan, UNESCO buffer.
🇬🇧 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
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 105
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 105 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 114
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 114 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 125
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 125 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.