🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai Grand Anicut
Sangam Period, Early Historic to Colonial · Tamil Chola (Sangam)
2nd century Chola granite anicut (329 m, 150 CE) on Kaveri River, oldest functional dam in world irrigating one million acres.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Shilikty South Rock Overhang Kurgan (Shilikty Southern Granite Overhang Field)
Early Saka Shilikty southern overhang (650–580 BCE) · Saka southern Shilikty granite spur
3 rock-shelter kurgans beneath 12 m granite overhang: talus gneiss chamber 5.8 m spall mound with mirror 18 cm 610 BCE.
🇫🇷 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Aswan First Cataract North Canal
Old Kingdom to Ptolemaic · Old–New Kingdom Pharaonic, Ptolemaic Greek Egyptian
2.1-km Pharaonic granite canal linking unfinished obelisk quarry to First Cataract Nile.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Sehel Island
Predynastic to Roman (3200 BCE–364 CE; peak New Kingdom and Ptolemaic) · Ancient Egyptian
Granite islet with ~600 cataract boulder inscriptions including Famine Stela 32 columns and predynastic boats.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Guadalperal
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic · Extremadura Megalithic (Tagus basin Chalcolithic)
Extremadura's 'Spanish Stonehenge' — oval chamber + 144-stone ovoid enclosure in Valdecañas reservoir, visible only in drought.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta de Pendilhe — Vila Nova de Paiva
Early–Middle Neolithic (c.3800–3200 BCE) · Northern Portuguese Megalithic (Beira Alta)
Anta de Pendilhe (called Orca de Pendilhe, Neolithic c.3800–3200 BCE) is a classic Beira Alta polygonal dolmen on the Dão plateau near Vila Nova de Paiva, with seven granite uprights 3.5 m tall…
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nuraghe La Prisgiona
Late Bronze Age · Nuragic
Gallura nuraghe with meeting hut village near Arzachena in granite hill country, c.14th century BCE.
🇬🇧 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.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Kamennyye Mogily West Gully Petroglyphs
Mesolithic to Bronze Age (8000 BCE – 1500 BCE) · Pontic Steppe hunter-gatherer to Yamna/Catacomb
West gully offshoots of Azov Stone Graves with bull and horse pecked panels.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Syene Granite Quarries
Old Kingdom to Roman (2700 BCE–500 CE; peak 1500–30 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian / Roman
Syene (Aswan) granite quarries are Old–Ptolemaic hardstone source producing 100-m-long unfinished obelisk of Hatshepsut (1,200 t) abandoned in bedrock crack, plus sarcophagi, colossi and pavements…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Alentejo Megalithic / Évora group
Iberia's largest dolmen near Évora — seven 8 m pillars with 12 m corridor, 4000-3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Lanyon Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Penwith portal dolmen — 5.5 m capstone (12 t) on three 1.5 m uprights, collapsed 1815 and reset lower.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Kerzerho Alignments
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
1.1 km Morbihan alignment of 190 menhirs in 10 rows south of Kerzerho, with circular enclosure and dolmens.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Merry Maidens Stone Circle
Early Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone graded granite circle (23.8 m) near Lamorna with two Pipers outlying stones.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Cairn of Barnenez
Early to Middle Neolithic · Armorican Early Neolithic
Oldest passage grave complex in Brittany — 72 m cairn with eleven parallel passage graves c.4850 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Gavrinis Passage Tomb
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic / Chassey-Cerny
Island passage tomb in Gulf of Morbihan with 14 m passage lined with richly carved orthostats, c.4200 BCE.
🇫🇷 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.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Blomsholm Stone Ship
Late Iron Age (with Neolithic antecedent landscape) · Late Iron Age Bohuslän
41 m stone ship of 49 granite blocks near Strömstad, one of Scandinavia's largest, among 26 graves.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Lácara
Late Neolithic · Alentejo-Extremadura Megalithic
Large Extremadura passage dolmen with 4.5 m granite orthostats and 14 m corridor near Mérida, c.3500 BCE.