🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Midhowe Broch
Iron Age (c.200 BCE–200 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian)
Finely preserved Rousay broch on Eynhallow Sound with intramural galleries and adjacent chambered cairn.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Saint-Just Megalithic Complex
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Saint-Just Megalithic Complex in Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn — Firth, Orkney
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Großsteingrab Soderstorf
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Großsteingrab Soderstorf in Lower Saxony, Lüneburg Heath, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Hurlers Stone Circles
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Bodmin Moor Bronze Age
Triple line of three Bronze Age granite circles (33–41.5 m) on Bodmin Moor with paired outlying stones.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Cairn du Petit Mont
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Three-phase promontory cairn (60 m) at Arzon with two superimposed passage graves and anthropomorphic art.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Lesconil Megalithic Necropolis
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Lesconil Megalithic Necropolis in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Mané-Kerioned Passage Dolmens
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mané-Kerioned Passage Dolmens in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Nabta Playa Astronomical Site
Early Holocene Neolithic (~7500–3500 BCE) · Nubian Neolithic pastoralist (El Nabta culture)
Beside a fossil playa that filled during the African Humid Period, nomads erected a 5-m mini-Stonehenge of quartzite slabs and radial lines pointing to summer solstice sunrise and to Sirius/Arcturus.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Megalith
Petit-Chasseur Megalithic Necropolis
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Petit-Chasseur Megalithic Necropolis in Valais, Switzerland is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Lancken-Granitz Dolmens
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Lancken-Granitz Dolmens in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Pierres Plates Passage Grave
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Pierres Plates Passage Grave in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Prajou Menhir
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Prajou Menhir in Brittany, Finistère, Molène arch., France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Brenz Megalithic Field
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Brenz Megalithic Field in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clickimin Broch
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1000 BCE–500 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age
Multi-phase broch on loch islet near Lerwick with unique blockhouse forework and wheelhouse overbuild.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Cromlech da Portela de Mogos
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Cromlech da Portela de Mogos in Évora, Alentejo, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Mougau-Bihan Passage Grave
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mougau-Bihan Passage Grave in Brittany, Finistère, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Aztec Ruins National Monument
Pueblo II–III 1115–1287 CE (Chacoan 1120–1140; Mesa Verde 1200–1287) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan then Mesa Verdean)
Misnamed 12th-century Great House built by Chacoan Ancestral Puebloans (Aztec West, 400 rooms, 3 storeys) and later occupied by Mesa Verdeans: E-shaped pueblo with Great Kiva (14.6 m diameter,…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Poulnabrone Dolmen
Early Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Lambay / Burren Neolithic)
Burren's iconic portal dolmen — 3.7 m capstone over 2.5 m chamber holding 33 Neolithic burials in limestone clint landscape.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Skateholm Mesolithic Cemetery
Mesolithic (7000–5000 BCE) · Ertebølle / Kongemose — Mesolithic hunter-gatherer
Iconic Late Mesolithic cemetery complex on former coastal lagoon in Scania, southern Sweden, with two cemeteries (Skateholm I and II) totalling ~65 graves (c.6000–5000 BCE).
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation (Bronzo Medio/Recente)
UNESCO archetype nuraghe in central Sardinia — trilobate basalt tower with four bastions, tholos chambers and 55-hut village, 1500-1000 BCE.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta da Pedra da Orca
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Anta da Pedra da Orca in Guarda, Centro, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Barkjær Causewayed Enclosure
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Barkjær Causewayed Enclosure in Jutland, Denmark is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Kergadiou Menhirs
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Kergadiou Menhirs in Brittany, Finistère, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.