🇫🇷 France · Geoglyph
Geoglyphs of Mound-Down
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Geoglyphs of Mound-Down in Occitanie, France is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) geoglyph attributed to Mississippian 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.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Fortress
Trakai Island Castle
Medieval (1377–1430) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Gediminid)
The only surviving water castle in Eastern Europe, built on 2 ha island in Lake Galvė by Grand Dukes Kęstutis and Vytautas the Great (c.1377–1409) as fortified residence.
🇫🇷 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Jebel Uweinat — Ain Doua Crest Rock Art Gallery
Pastoral Neolithic (6000–1500 BCE) · Uweinat pastoralists (Garamantian ancestor?)
Uweinat documented by Frobenius 1933 and Menardi Noguera, 6000 BCE cattle pastoralists.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Ulippira (Henchir el-Biar)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman
Olive press village with Roman counterweights and vats still visible among olive groves, typical of High Tell oleoculture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Barnhouse Stone — Standing Monolith Orkney
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware
Outlier monolith 700 m NW of Barnhouse settlement and 800 m from Stones of Stenness, part of Heart of Neolithic Orkney ritual landscape.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Stenness Annex — Watch Stone Monolith
Late Neolithic (3100 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Ness causeway outlier midway between two henges, with Bridge of Brodgar nearby, excavated causeway timber 2014.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Earthwork
Harichavank Gate — Molokan Settlement Granite Slab
Bronze Age (1500 BCE cyclopean) reused 19th Molokan · Bronze Age cyclopean → Molokan settlers 1920
Harich cyclopean.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Daura Emirate – Hausa Foundation City
Hausa foundation (9th c CE – 1805 Fulani conquest; Bayajidda c. 900 CE) · Hausa (Bayajidda legend; Daurama matriarchal tradition)
Holiest Hausa city where Bayajidda legend says Daurama queen's serpent Sarki in Kusugu well was slain c. 900 CE founding Hausa Bakwai; 14th c mud walls 6.5 km with palace of Emir a...
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Kilclooney More Dolmen
Early Neolithic (3800–3600 BCE) · Northwest Irish Neolithic
Kilclooney More portal dolmen on the Donegal coast north of Ardara, a dramatic tripod dolmen with tilted capstone on slender portal orthostats overlooking Donegal Bay; intact burial chamber never…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Megalith
Sahara Atlases — Oued Inaouen Stone Circle Village
Neolithic (4000–2500 BCE) Middle Atlas · Neolithic Atlas Berber pastoral
Middle Atlas circles surveyed.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Geoglyph
Cordillera del Cóndor Tepui-Top Geoglyphs (Amazon Divide)
Formative (Early Formative to Upano contemporary) · Cóndor cloud-forest formative (pre-Mayo-Chinchipe)
Tepui-top forest geoglyphs on the Cordillera del Cóndor divide (1,250 m, 3°23′34″S 78°06′49″W per Ichigkat Muja National Park centre), bridging Ecuador and Peru Amazon headwaters: Rio Cenepa (Peru)…
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Ushivika Kofun
Middle–Late Kofun 400–600 CE (Kyushu regional) · Kyushu Chikuho Kofun (northern Kyushu style)
Ushivika Kofun — unrecorded southwestern keyhole? round kofun (c.5th–6th c CE, middle–late Kofun) on Chikuho plain between Iizuka and Keisen, Fukuoka, reported 2018 Chikuho mound survey.
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Dhambalin Rock Art (Caad)
Neolithic pastoral (3500–1500 BCE pastoral art) · Pastoral Cushitic (early Somali ancestor) / Pre-Somaliland
14 m sandstone shelter with 22 polychrome fat-tailed sheep pastoral panel 3500 BCE – among earliest domestic sheep iconography.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Menhir de Kerloas
Late Neolithic (c.5000–4000 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Brittany)
Europe's tallest upright menhir (9.5 m, 150 t) — Brittany granite giant with twin basal bosses, lightning-shorn.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Inga Stone South
Late Archaic to Early Ceramic (5000 – 2000 BCE disputed) · Pre-ceramic Nordeste
Inga Stone South in Paraíba, Brazil is a Late Archaic to Early Ceramic (5000 – 2000 BCE disputed) rock art attributed to Pre-ceramic Nordeste culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Pintados Geoglyphs
Pre-Inca Atacama (500 – 1450 CE) · Atacameño / Tarapacá
Pintados Geoglyphs in Tarapacá, Chile is a Pre-Inca Atacama (500 – 1450 CE) geoglyph attributed to Atacameño / Tarapacá culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Saint Catherine Monastery — Sacred Monastery of Sinai
Byzantine to Present (Justinian–continuous) · Byzantine Greek Orthodox / Bedouin Jebeleya
Saint Catherine Monastery (548–565 CE Justinian I) is world's oldest continuously operating Christian monastery at 1585 m foot of Mount Sinai intra Wadi el-Deir.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Lepsius I Pyramid at Abu Rawash — North Slope
late 3rd–early 4th Dynasty, c.2680 BCE (Huni?) · Ancient Egyptian (Huni?)
Unfinished mound pyramid Lepsius I on Abu Rawash plateau north of Djedefre pyramid: enormous 215 m base, rock-cut foundation trench and core mound 19 m high, now limestone rubble hill.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Wadi al-Jarf — Harbour North Ancillary Gallery (Suez, Egypt)
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Wadi al-Jarf — Harbour North Ancillary Gallery (Suez, Egypt) in Suez, Wadi al-Jarf, Egypt is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attrib…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Kocan Tepe West Tek Tek Ridge
PPNA to PPNB · Taş Tepeler
Kocan Tepe West Tek Tek Ridge at Şanlıurfa, Tek Tek West, Turkey is a PPNA to PPNB temple complex of the Taş Tepeler tradition, built c. 9200 BCE for uninvestigated t-pillar ridge quarry.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Mains Baraka Burial
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Sanctuary of Mains Baraka Burial in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Wadi Thwaite Harbor Aqueduct
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Wadi Thwaite Harbor Aqueduct in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.