🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Millbarrow (Winterbourne Monkton Long Barrow)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, c.3750 BCE.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Port Wadi Dolmen
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Port Wadi Dolmen in Henan, China is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇴🇲 Oman · Megalith
Dolmen de New Dyke
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Dolmen de New Dyke in Dhofar, Oman is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Megalith
Forge Dolmen
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Forge Dolmen in Negev, Israel is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Menhir de Champ-Dolent
Early to Middle Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Tallest menhir in Brittany — 9.3 m rose granite monolith near Dol-de-Bretagne, c.5000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney Cromarty stalled tradition
Rousay stalled cairn — 13 m seven-compartment chamber under 22 m mound on south coast.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dombate Dolmen — Galician Passage Grave Painted Panel-Menhir Atlantic
Neolithic (3800–2700 BCE corridor 3800, painted 2700 BCE) · Galician Neolithic Dombate style (Atlantic megalithic painted art)
Dombate excavated by Bello 1998 Galician largest.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Badaling Great Wall
Ming Dynasty 1505 (Jiajing) rebuild over Northern Qi core · Ming Han Chinese
Best-preserved Ming Great Wall pass (1505) at 1,015 m Juyongguan defile north of Beijing, 7.8 m high crenellated brick-stone ramparts with 19 watchtowers, widened for five horses abreast and beacon…
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Pyramid Outlier Asia 83 — Japan Region 11
Period Medieval · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Pyramid Outlier Asia 83 — Japan Region 11 in Japan Region 11, Japan is a Iron Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
West Kennet Long Barrow
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
100 m Early Neolithic chambered long barrow near Avebury with five sarsen chambers under chalk mound.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Hunebed D17 at Rolde
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
Large TRB hunebed D17 at Rolde (c. 3400 BCE), 17 m chamber with 8 capstones, one of the intact Drenthe passage graves near Rolde church. Excavated and restored showing pottery and flint assemblage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Hembury Ware
Type-site causewayed enclosure 2 km from Avebury — three interrupted ditch circuits enclosing 8.5 ha.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Ollape
Late Intermediate Period 1000–1470 CE, Chachapoya culture before Inca conquest · Chachapoyas (Sachapuyos)
UNESCO tentative Chachapoyas 13-site serial nomination component 02 Ollape: hilltop citadel 5 ha at La Jalca with 100+ circular houses (diameter 4–7 m) with friezes of rhombic and zigzag stone inlay,…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Pomoná
Maya Late Classic 600–900 CE · Maya (Pomoná Pacbul?)
Hill-terraced Maya port with Palenque war record, 600–900 CE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Table des Marchand
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
Decorated passage grave at Locmariaquer with art linked to Gavrinis, beside the fallen 20.6 m Grand Menhir.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Temple complex
El Fuerte de Samaipata Annex
Mojocoyas 300–800 CE to Inca 1450–1535 to Spanish 1600s · Chané-Mojocoyas to Inca (Andean-Amazon transition) to Spanish contact
Annex 60 m south of great rock table (220×60 m sculpted sandstone) at UNESCO El Fuerte de Samaipata (1998): terraced annex with 15 Inca-style niches, kallanka great hall 22 m long, and Chané jaguar…
🇬🇬 Guernsey · Megalith
Le Creux ès Faies
Middle to Late Neolithic · Guernsey Passage Grave
Fairy folklore passage tomb on southwest coast headland, Guernsey, 8 m passage, c.3000 BCE.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
Lower Paleolithic 100,000 BCE to Early Historic 1st c BCE (Mesolithic art 10,000–5000 BCE) · Early Indian hunter-gatherer to Mesolithic
Seven hills of Vindhyan sandstone with >750 painted rock shelters spanning Lower Paleolithic to Historical (100,000 BCE–1st c BCE), including Auditorium Cave with cupules and Zoo Rock.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat South — Saqqara (Saqqara)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat South in Saqqara, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) megalithic attributed to Medieval culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Holm of Papa Westray South Chambered Cairn
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Tidal islet cairn linked to earlier Holm of Papa Westray North Cairn (c.3700 BCE), excavated 1982–83, yielding human bone, pottery and lithics now dated to 3200 BCE.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Tustrup Dysser
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB / Tragtbægerkultur)
Danish cemetery of three dolmens and passage grave plus timber cult house showing Funnel Beaker evolution, c.3200 BCE.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith
Kurgan Field Asia 52 — Mongolia Region 4
Period Medieval · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Kurgan Field Asia 52 — Mongolia Region 4 in Mongolia Region 4, Mongolia is a Bronze Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Calanais Standing Stones
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Cruciform setting: central circle 13 m diameter with 4.8 m monolith and avenues N,S,E,W. Most prominent of 19 Callanish sites on ridge above Loch Roag. Potential lunar standstill alignment.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
La Venta Outlier
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
La Venta Outlier in Atacama, Chile is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.