Megaliths

14 ancient megaliths across 11 countries, from Göbekli Tepe (9,500 BCE) to Sacsayhuamán (1450 CE), and the theories that connect them.

The site that broke the timeline: monumental enclosures before farming, raised by 'hunter-gatherers' nearly twelve thousand years ago.

A calendar circle in the Sahara that watched the solstice sun two thousand years before Stonehenge.

Three thousand standing stones marching in parallel rows toward the sunrise — Europe's largest megalithic array.

Among the oldest free-standing buildings on Earth, raised — said the Gozitans — by a giantess with a baby on her hip.

Older than the pyramids: for seventeen minutes at winter solstice, the dead receive the sun.

The world's most famous stone circle — a solstice machine whose bluestones travelled 240 kilometres.

A Celtic cross of standing stones raised 3,000 years before Christianity, tuned to the moon's slowest dance.

A stone circle so vast an entire village sits inside it.

A terraced hill of basalt columns that one team claims hides the world's oldest pyramid.

Home of the trilithon: three quarried stones of 800 tonnes each — and a fourth, still in the quarry, over 1,000.

H-shaped blocks machined with interior right angles, four kilometres above the sea.

Nearly a thousand stone ancestors stare inland from the world's most isolated inhabited island.

Six pink porphyry monoliths stand on a terrace reached only by hauling them across a river and up a mountain.

Zigzag ramparts of giant stones — the largest over 120 tonnes — fitted so tightly a blade of grass cannot pass between them.

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