🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Monks Mound
Mississippian 900–1200 CE (peak 1050–1200) · Mississippian (Cahokia)
Largest earthen structure in the Americas north of Mexico and centerpiece of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Tambo Colorado
Late Horizon Inca coastal 1470–1532 CE · Inca (coastal Pisco Chinchaysuyu)
Best-preserved polychrome Inca adobe palace enclosure on Pisco coast, 1470–1532 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bryn Celli Ddu — North Outlier Standing Stone Row
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Bryn Celli Ddu — North Outlier Standing Stone Row in Wales, Anglesey, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic att…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
New Meroe Citadel B — Meroe (56-34)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
New Meroe Citadel B — Meroe (56-34) at Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Swinside Stone Circle (Sunkenkirk)
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria (Langdale axe trade area)
55-stone porphyritic circle (28.6 m) above Duddon estuary — best preserved in North-West England.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Wilcahuain (Huilcahuaín)
Middle Horizon Wari 700–800 CE · Wari (Huaraz highland)
3-storey Wari gallery-mausoleum with interior ventilated labyrinth, 700–800 CE.
🇬🇲 Gambia · Megalith
Kerbatch Stone Circles — Senegambian Megaliths
Medieval Senegambian (750–1100 CE) · Senegambian Iron Age (Serer)
Kerbatch (Kerr Batch) is the second Gambian UNESCO stone-circle nucleus (1226) with 9 circles (3–5 m Ø) and V-shaped laterite pillars up to 1.7 m.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nuraghe Santu Antine
Middle to Late Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation
Giant Sardinian nuraghe at Torralba — 21 m central tower with three bastions and corbelled chambers, 1600-1200 BCE.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Incallajta Fortress
Inca Late Horizon to Resistance 1463–1572 CE · Inca (Chinchaysuyu eastern frontier)
78-m kallanka—largest roofed Inca hall—within 2 km walled fortress, 1463–1572 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Royal Giza Ridge West — Giza (56-35)
Classical (regional) · Classical
Royal Giza Ridge West — Giza (56-35) at Giza, Egypt is a Classical (regional) megalithic of the Classical tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talaiot de Trepucó — Maó, Menorca
Bronze Age to Iron Age Talayotic (c.1200–123 BCE) · Talayotic (Menorcan Bronze–Iron)
Trepucó (Talayotic c.1200–123 BCE) 2 km south of Maó is Menorca's largest talayotic village, 5 ha with central 17-m high truncated cone talaiot 20 m diameter and outer walls 4 m thick enclosing a…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Old Giza Ridge I — Giza (56-45)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Old Giza Ridge I — Giza (56-45) at Giza, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Slieve Gullion Passage Tombs
Middle Neolithic to Bronze Age · Irish Passage Tomb / Bronze Age
Summit and north passage tombs on Slieve Gullion (573 m), south cairn cruciform, Bronze Age kerb reuse, c.3500 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
Basketmaker II–Pueblo III 1500 BCE–1300 CE (peak 1000–1300) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi, Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Largest archaeological landscape in US implying 30,000 people: 176,000-acre (71,200 ha) monument with 6,355 recorded sites – villages, cliff dwellings, kivas, towers and shrines from Basketmaker to…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Arthur's Stone, Gower (Maen Cetti)
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Severn-Cotswold / Gower Neolithic
Gower's 40-tonne conglomerate portal dolmen on Cefn Bryn ridge — largest capstone in Wales, split 1693.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Megalith
Msoura Stone Circle
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1500 BCE) · Atlantic Megalithic / Bell Beaker
Msoura (Mzora) Cromlech is Morocco's sole Atlantic megalithic ellipse, 55×45 m of 175 menhirs encircling a 6-m tumulus, 25 km southeast of Asilah. Tallest monolith El Uted (The Pointer) 5.5 m.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Alignements de Lagatjar
Late Neolithic · Western Brittany Neolithic (Océan Atlantic Megalithic)
Crozon's triple stone rows — 72 menhirs (to 2.1 m) in three 200 m parallel alignments near Camaret.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Gors Fawr Stone Circle — Mynachlog-ddu
Late Neolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Welsh Late Neolithic (Preseli Groove)
Gors Fawr (Late Neolithic c.3000–2500 BCE) is a 22-m perfect circle of 16 Preseli dolerite pillars, 0.6–1.8 m high, on moorland at Mynachlog-ddu beneath the Preseli ridge that sourced Stonehenge…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Tumulus
Medracen — Royal Mausoleum of Numidia
Numidian Late Iron Age (300–100 BCE) · Berber Numidian / Masseayli
Medracen (Madghacen) is the 19 m high bazina royal mausoleum of Numidian Berber kings (c.300 BCE), largest pre-Roman bazina in North Africa, 59 m diameter drum with 60 Doric half-columns and cornice,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cajamarquilla Pyramids
Early Intermediate Lima to Middle Horizon Wari 1–800 CE · Lima culture (later Wari influence)
167-ha tapia pyramid city, 1st–8th century CE Lima culture metropolis.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Tumulus
Djeddars of Frenda — Berber Royal Tombs
Late Antique Berber (Vandal–Byzantine–early Islamic transition) · Berber Christian/Jetar
Djeddars of Frenda are 13 Berber royal pyramid-mausoleums (4th–7th c CE) on two Tiaret plateau hills 30 km S of Tiaret, square bazina with pyramidal steps 20×20 m base, 18 m high with chapels and…
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Kiusu Earthwork Burial Circles
Final Jomon 1200–800 BCE · Jomon Final Hokkaido
Late Jomon collective burial banked circles (1200–800 BCE) on terrace above Ushiku River at Chitose — 9 embanked circular enclosures diameter 12–75 m built of external ditch and internal bank housing…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Locmariaquer Megaliths
Middle Neolithic (~4700–4000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic)
Three interlinked monuments on the Gulf of Morbihan: the shattered 20.6-m Grand Menhir Brisé – heaviest moved stone in Europe at 280 tonnes before earthquake toppling; the Table des Marchand passage…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Hagbard's Gallows (Hagbards Galge)
Middle to Late Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Halland)
Two 4.5 m 'gallows' menhirs plus 18 m circle and 25 m ship on Halland coastal plain — saga-linked cemetery.