This is for sites concerning the monuments, tombs, and other architectonic constructions prominently featuring very large (mostly shaped) stones.
Subcategories 7
Sites 14
- A visit to Son Catlar Virtual visit to the prehistoric village of Son Catlar, Minorca. In English, Spanish and Catalan.
- Talatí Virtual visit to the prehistoric village of Talatí de Dalt, Minorca,. In English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Deutsch and Italiano.
- German Stonepages Provides information on megaliths in and around Osnabrück in North Germany, in English and German. Includes hiking trails [in German] and links.
- Ancient Stones - Megaliths in Western Europe Picture gallery and descriptions of megalithic sites in Western Europe. In English and German, with map interface.
- Megaliths in Western Europe Odile Prigent describes these great stone monuments and the Neolithic farmers who built them. Plans, drawings and photographs of the different types; important examples. French and English versions.
- Stone Pages Some of the most interesting megalithic and other archaeological sites in Europe.
- Yemeni Megaliths A chance discovery of a group of megaliths on a coastal plain in western Yemen has sent scholars scrambling to explain why and how people were living there between ca. 2400 and 800 B.C. Article from Archaeology.
- Megaliths of Apulia Toti Calo's photographic book of megaliths in Europe and specifically Apulia, Italy.
- Megalítica - Megaliths of Menorca Photographs and descriptions by St. Jakobi of a variety of ancient structures on the island of Menorca.
- Who Built New England's Megalithic Monuments? Article by Paul Tudor Angel explores the possible origins of "odd rocks" found in the northeastern United States.
- Stones of Italy In Italy too, there are megalithic monuments.
- Klaus' megaliths A detailed collection of pictures of menhirs and prehistoric graves in Germany, with descriptions and links. Also in German.
- The Megalithic Portal Database of ancient sites worldwide with thousands of entries and photographs. Information is contributed by visitors from dozens of countries. Also includes a regularly updated news section and active forum.
- A Major New Megalithic Complex in Europe A new megalithic complex has been discovered, second only to Carnac in size and importance in Europe. Set in the forested hill-country of the Istranca Mountains in Turkish Thrace, clustered around the sacred mountain of Muhittin Baba, lies a group of standing stone complexes of comparable complexity and size, with the total number of individual stones reaching over 2,000