🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bodowyr Burial Chamber
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3200 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey (Irish Sea province)
Anglesey portal dolmen with wedge capstone on five stones — small Neolithic tomb in farmland south of Gaerwen.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Cromlech Vale Maria do Meio
Late Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic (Évora tradition)
U-shaped Alentejo cromlech (34 menhirs, 10 x 12 m) near Almendres — open eastern entrance intermediate to squared Xerez.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Cheonmachong Tomb (Heavenly Horse Tomb)
Three Kingdoms Silla 5th–6th c CE · Silla Three Kingdoms (Gyeongju Tumuli)
Cheonmachong (Tomb No.155) — Silla royal tomb (c.5th–6th c CE, Silla middle) 100 m west Hwangnam Daechong, Gyeongju Tumuli Park, excavated 1973 CHA (Kim Jeong-hak).
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Gannarve
Bronze Age → Early Iron Age 1100–500 BCE Gotland · Nordic Bronze Age Gotlandic (Gotland stone-ship tradition)
Gannarve — Gotland stone ship (skeppssättning) Late Bronze–Early Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE) on Gannarve farm ridge 4 km NE Sandhamn, Fröjel, Gotland west coast, 25 km south Visby.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Kurgan
Bayan-Undur Kurgan & Deer Stone Field (Khövsgöl)
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Khirigsuur / Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Complex) · Mongolian Late Bronze pastoral
Steppe-forest ecotone kurgan and deer-stone complex (1,580 m, 46°29′28″N 104°07′07″E 46.4912N 104.1186E Bayan-Öndör) bridging Mongolian Khirigsuur (Late Bronze 1300-700 BCE) and deer stone-khirigsuur…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Alignements du Ménec — Carnac
Early to Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic/Chasséen-derived Atlantic)
Ménec (Early–Middle Neolithic c.4500–3000 BCE) is the westernmost and largest Carnac alignment: 11 parallel rows 1,167 m long with 1,099 menhirs descending from a western cromlech (egg-shaped 100 ×…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Calden Gallery Grave — Eckhardshausen
Late Neolithic (Wartberg c.3400–2800 BCE; Erdwerk c.3700 BCE) · Wartberg (with Michelsberg enclosure precursor)
Calden II is one of two Wartberg gallery graves (c.3400–3000 BCE) on the Calden plateau north of Kassel, a 10-m gallery chamber of limestone slabs within a 12 × 4 m mound, adjacent to the 7-hectare…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Carrowmore — Listoghil Central Tomb
Middle Neolithic – Bronze Age · Carrowmore passage/boulder tradition (early)
Ireland's largest cemetery — ~30 boulder dolmens around Listoghil passage tomb (3600 BCE), oldest on Cúil Irra peninsula.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Oshoro
Jomon Mid–Late 2500–1800 BCE (Hokkaido) · Jomon Hokkaido (Oshima–Shakotan)
Hokkaido Jomon stone circle (2500–1800 BCE) at Oshoro Otaru — 30 m with 47 boulders and Fusen rock art above Oshoro Bay.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Takasago Burial Site
Late to Final Jomon 1800–400 BCE · Late–Final Jomon (southwestern Hokkaido)
Late–Final Jomon collective cemetery (c.1800–400 BCE) adjoining Irie Site at Lake Toya, Toyako, Hokkaido — paired with Irie as single property Irie–Takasago (UNESCO 1632 dual).
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Temple complex
Keskese — Aksumite Ritual Complex
Pre-Aksumite D'mt to Aksumite (800 BCE–400 CE) · D'mt / Pre-Aksumite Eritrean
Keskese is a 1st millennium BCE ritual centre 2 km north of Matara on a highland valley at 2000 m on the Komaile Valley head to the Red Sea.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Tanum Rock Carvings (Hällristningar Tanum)
Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Bohuslän rock art tradition)
UNESCO Bohuslän rock art — 600 panels / 2500 pecked figures (ships, sun, ploughs) on granite, 1700–500 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Taos Pueblo
Ancestral Pueblo to historic 1000 CE–present (Hlauuma founded c.1000–1450 CE) · Taos Pueblo (Tiwa language, Northern Tiwa; ancestors Ancestral Puebloans)
Living Native American community and UNESCO World Heritage Site (1992) inhabited continuously for >1,000 years: two multi-storey adobe complexes Hlauuma (north house) and Hlaukwima (south house) up…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Tekkalakota
Southern Neolithic 3000–1200 BCE → Megalithic–Iron 1000 BCE–100 CE · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic (Bellary)
Ballari granite hill Neolithic–Megalithic village (3000 BCE–100 CE) with burnished ware and iron cists on dolerite axe ridge.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Kivik King's Grave (Kungagraven i Kivik)
Early Nordic Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Scania elite)
Scandinavian Bronze Age masterpiece — 75 m cairn with cist bearing eight slabs of ship and solar carvings, c.1400 BCE.
🇫🇲 Micronesia · Submerged site
Nan Madol — Nan Douwas North Islet Ancillary (Pohnpei)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Nan Madol — Nan Douwas North Islet Ancillary (Pohnpei) in Pohnpei, Nan Madol, Nan Douwas, Micronesia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerg…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Incallajta (Inkallajta) – Largest Inca Site in Kollasuyo
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1463–1536 CE) · Inca (Tawantinsuyu – Tupac Yupanqui / Huayna Capac)
Gigantic Inca imperial town (c.1463–1530s, Tupac Yupanqui) on eastern Andean slope guarding Cochabamba–Antisuyo frontier: Kallanka great hall 78 m long × 26 m wide × 13 m high (largest roofed Inca…
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Giants' Tomb of Sa Domu 'e S'Orcu — Siddi, Sardinia
Middle to Late Bronze Age (c.1600–1000 BCE) · Nuragic (Bonnanaro–Middle Bronze)
Sa Domu 'e S'Orcu (Middle–Late Bronze Age c.1600–1000 BCE) on the Giara di Siddi basalt plateau is a 17-m giants' tomb with a 4.5-m high crescent forecourt (hemicycle) of basalt orthostats and a 10-m…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Megalith
Eastern Teotihuacan Platform B — Teotihuacan (56-03)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Eastern Teotihuacan Platform B — Teotihuacan (56-03) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Early Historic (regional) megalithic of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Temple complex
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Timurid 1389–1405 over Yasawi 12th c. · Timurid / Sufi Sunni
Colossal Timurid shrine (1389–1405) over 12th-c. Sufi poet Khoja Ahmed Yasawi's grave, commissioned by Timur to draw Islam to steppe, largest brick dome in Central Asia (44 m high, 22 m span) and…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure Avebury
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure Avebury at Wiltshire, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic of the Windmill Hill tradition, built c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Grey Cairns of Camster
Neolithic (c.3500–3000 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic (Caithness)
Flow Country pair of vast Orkney-Cromarty cairns — 60 m long horned cairn with two chambers and intact round cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
West Kennet Long Barrow — Ancillary Ditch Segment
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
West Kennet Long Barrow — Ancillary Ditch Segment in England, Wiltshire, Avebury, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) me…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Karlevi Runestone (Karlevistenen) — Öland Burial Place
Late Viking Age (with Iron Age grave field) · Late Viking Age Öland (Yngling / Danish sphere)
Öland's Öl 1 runestone (c.1000 CE) with full skaldic stanza standing among ship setting and mound — Viking megalithic transition.