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Dhekia Pathar
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: India
Visited: Would like to visit
Dhekia Pathar overview submitted by bat400 on 22nd Mar 2012. The Dhekia Dolmen. Note the temple entrance to the right.
Photo courtesy: Subhashis Das and http://www.megalithindia.in/
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Yaxha
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Guatemala
Visited: Would like to visit
Yaxha submitted by SolarMegalith on 14th Oct 2010. Yaxha - temple 216, one of the best preserved constructions in this ceremonial centre (photo taken on March 2005).
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Nakum
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Guatemala
Visited: Would like to visit
Nakum submitted by SolarMegalith on 19th Oct 2010. La Iglesia (The Church) pyramid in Nakum (photo taken March 2005).
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Wassu Stone Circles
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Gambia
Visited: Would like to visit
Wassu Stone Circles submitted by paulcall on 14th Feb 2009. This circle has the largest diameter of any at Wassu
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Aksum
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Ethiopia
Visited: Would like to visit
Aksum submitted by durhamnature on 11th Dec 2012. Old photo of the monoliths from "American Journal of Archaeology" via archive.org
Site in Ethiopia
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San Andres
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: El Salvador
Visited: Would like to visit
San Andres submitted by SolarMegalith on 20th Feb 2011. Most of the buildings in ceremonial part of San Andres complex are dated for Late Classic period (photo taken on March 2009).
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Abu Simbel Temple of Ramses II
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Nubia)
Visited: Would like to visit
Abu Simbel Temple of Ramses II submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2005. Abu Simbel Temple of Ramses.
All the Egyptian temples in Nubia were saved from flooding during the building of the Aswan High Dam by a concerted effort of Unesco and participating countries such as Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, Germany, the US amnong others.
Egypt desperately needed the power and a regulated water suplly for a gorwing population. Abu Simble represented the culmination of this effort as it was the largest and most representative of the temples in Nubia. Over a 5 year period, the ...
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Abu Simbel Temple of Nefertari
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Nubia)
Visited: Would like to visit
Abu Simbel Temple of Nefertari submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2005. Abu Simbel Temple of Nefertari.
Nefertari was Ramses II favourite wife. This temple stands about 100 meters north of Ramses' own much larger temple.
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Nabta Playa
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Egypt (Nubia)
Visited: Would like to visit
Nabta Playa submitted by Andy B on 8th Jul 2010. Nabta Playa calendar in Aswan Nubia museum
Image by Raymbetz, Creative Commons License
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San Agustin Parque Arqueologico
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: Colombia
Visited: Would like to visit
San Agustin Parque Arqueologico submitted by SolarMegalith on 2nd Dec 2010. One of the burial cists build from basalt and and esite stones (photo taken on July 2003).
Site in Columbia
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Alto de las Guacas
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Colombia
Visited: Would like to visit
Alto de las Guacas submitted by SolarMegalith on 30th Mar 2012. Dolmen-like chamber inside the mound. In his work "Megality świata" (2001) Zygmunt Krzak, one of the best Polish prehistorians, considers these structures as South-American dolmens (photo taken on March 2012).
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Sahensai Cemetery
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: China
Visited: Would like to visit
Sahensai Cemetery submitted by Andy B on 8th Jan 2011. The tombs are marked by mound-like stone piles or stone encirclement on the ground
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Les Fouaillages
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Guernsey)
Visited: Would like to visit
Les Fouaillages submitted by Tom_Bullock on 23rd Nov 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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Le Dehus
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Guernsey)
Visited: Would like to visit
Le Dehus submitted by Tom_Bullock on 23rd Nov 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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Ballakelly
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Isle of Man)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ballakelly submitted by Kammer on 23rd Apr 2004. Ballakelly (SC321719) viewed from the south, with prone slabs in the foreground, the chamber behind them, and the orthostat to the right. Taken 27th August 2003.
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La Mare es Mauves
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Guernsey)
Visited: Would like to visit
La Mare es Mauves submitted by Tom_Bullock on 23rd Nov 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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La Platte Mare
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Guernsey)
Visited: Would like to visit
La Platte Mare submitted by Tom_Bullock on 23rd Nov 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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Le Mont Ubé
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Would like to visit
Le Mont Ubé submitted by Adam Stanford on 25th Nov 2004. Situated at the top of a short, snaking footpath up the side of a steep wooded slope. This Dolmen is completely open with no mound or capstones, the chamber is 12.3m long and 1.7m high with its widest section being 7.2m. 28 uprights still stand, forming a passage into the burial chamber, which is similar to the tomb at La Hougue Bie. The location, is high up on the slope but was not the highest point, a few hundred metres away on the top of the hill is a tower. The stones that would have defined...
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Ville ès Nouaux
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ville ès Nouaux submitted by Adam Stanford on 25th Nov 2004. Ville ès Nouaux which consisits of a Cist-in-circle and a Gallery grave on the outskirts of St Helier. Situated in St Andrews Park a fenced off circular area contains two tombs; the first is a gallery grave which is 11.5m long, 1.2m wide and lm high. Seven capstones are in place on the roof, but unfortunately two were lost in the 19th century when sand that covered it was excavated. Damage had also occurred before the sand built up over it, in about 1000BC this then formed a protective layer, b...
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Great Menhir, The
Date Added: 24th Jun 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Would like to visit
Great Menhir, The submitted by Adam Stanford on 3rd Mar 2005. Another Menhir in a series of standing stones, perhaps forming part of a processional route, in St Ouen's Bay on the west coast of Jersey. A short walk from the Broken Menhir (approx 400m south of) at Grid: UTM 572496 is a 2m high granite block re-erected by The Société Jersaise in 1922 and known as the Great Menhir. It stands in a 0.75m pit and is supported by other smaller stones packed in around the base, (also known as Trig stones) on a northwest facing slope. Photographed on an Archaeolog...
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