🇧🇷 Brazil · Tumulus
Moor Burial Mound
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Moor Burial Mound in Piauí, Brazil is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) tumulus attributed to Roman culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Hillfort Rampart Africa 47 — Ethiopia Region 11
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Hillfort Rampart Africa 47 — Ethiopia Region 11 in Ethiopia Region 11, Ethiopia is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Miamisburg Mound
Early Woodland Adena 1000–200 BCE · Adena
Second-largest conical mound in Ohio (65 ft/20 m high, 877 ft circumference) and tallest surviving Adena mound, preserved at Miamisburg Mound State Park.
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Lepsius Mound Outlier — Mississippi Valley (Cahokia)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Lepsius Mound Outlier in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Medieval culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Tumulus Cemetery Africa 36 — Ethiopia Region 12
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Tumulus Cemetery Africa 36 — Ethiopia Region 12 in Ethiopia Region 12, Ethiopia is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Tumulus
Lindholm Høje Burial Field
Iron Age to Viking Age (500–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age / Viking
Dramatic Viking burial field (700 graves) and Iron Age/Viking settlement on hill overlooking Limfjord at Nørresundby–Aalborg, preserved under windblown sand after 1000 CE abandonment.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Chambered Cairn Hill Africa 114 — Egypt Region 6
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Chambered Cairn Hill Africa 114 — Egypt Region 6 in Egypt Region 6, Egypt is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Megalith
Tiekene-Boussoura Tumulus North
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Tiekene-Boussoura Tumulus North in Nok Valley, Nigeria is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) megalithic attributed to Medieval culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Tumulus
Western Ridge Tumulus — Nubia (Khartoum)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Western Ridge Tumulus in Nubia, Nigeria is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) tumulus attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Megalith
Susa Acropole Temple Platform — Nubia (Khartoum)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Susa Acropole Temple Platform in Nubia, Nigeria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Medieval culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Kızılbel Tomb
Persian period (c.525 BCE; chamber c.525–500 BCE) · Persian-period Lycian (Elmalı dynasty under Achaemenid satrapy)
Persian-period painted chamber tomb (525 BCE) with 2.5 m banquet frieze under tumulus at Elmalı.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Takamatsuzuka Tomb — Asuka Mural Tomb
Asuka (c.700 CE, late 7th c.) · Asuka court (Korean painter?)
Asuka tomb discovered 1972 by farmer, excavated 1972–74, mural of women in court dress, Tang-style.
🇬🇧 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Shrum Mound
Early Woodland Adena to Early Hopewell transition · Adena
Adena conical mound (20 ft/6 m high, 100 ft/30 m diameter) preserved in Campbell Park, Columbus — one of few surviving mounds in Ohio's capital city.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Mozu — Itasuke Kofun Moat-Side Cluster
Kofun (early 5th c. CE) · Yamato
Mozu Itasuke excavated periphery 1980s, scallop shape intermediate between round and keyhole, moat eels.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Silbury Hill — Avebury Landscape
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe (c. 2400 BCE), 39.3 m high conical chalk mound in Avebury World Heritage Site.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Tumulus
Igbo-Ukwu Workshop Mound South Annex — Western Terrace
Early Medieval (800-1000 CE) · Igbo-Ukwu
Igbo-Ukwu Workshop Mound South Annex — Western Terrace in Anambra, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria is a Early Medieval (800-1000 CE) tumulus attributed to Igbo-Ukwu.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Zhetytobe South Kurgan Cluster (Seven Hills South Ridge)
Early Saka to Wusun Transition · Saka–Wusun
Zhetytobe south: 6 adobe-ring Saka kurgans 3 km south of Seven Hills core, Turkestan Ridge.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus de Bougon
Early to Middle Neolithic · Atlantic Early Neolithic / Cerny
Necropolis of six tumuli A-F spanning 4800-3000 BCE, including oldest megalithic building in western France.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Tumulus
Cekeen Tumuli
The tumuli of Cekeen are ancient burial mounds located in the Diourbel Department of the Diourbel Region, in Senegal. The region and the city of Diourbel were part of the precolonial Kingdom of Baol.