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• - 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.
  
• - 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 stan
  
• - Picture gallery and descriptions of megalithic sites in Western Europe. In English and German, with map interface.
  
• - Prehistoric megaliths, archaeological park, fieldwork opportunities, a long-term project to study, restore, protect ancient cultural heritage on the Black sea coast, Russia.
  
• - Photographic guide to stone circles, megaliths and other prehistoric sites by Andy Burnham.
  
• - The University of Colorado declares an assembly of huge stone slabs at Nabta in Egypt to be the oldest known astronomical alignment of megaliths in the world.
  
• - Aim to demonstrate the most effective and efficient way of moving megaliths, in the hope of better understanding ancient technology.
  
• - Site about Russian megaliths, with timeline, classification, photos, theories, and articles. In Russian, but has links to Babelfish translation which works passably.
  
• - Photographs and descriptions by St. Jakobi of a variety of ancient structures on the island of Menorca.
  
• - Virtual visit to the prehistoric village of Talatí de Dalt, Minorca,. In English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Deutsch and Italiano.
  
• - German pyramids the biggest monuments of the Megalith-culture on the continent.
  
• - Provides information on megaliths in and around Osnabrück in North Germany, in English and German. Includes hiking trails [in German] and links.
  
• - Toti Calo's photographic book of megaliths in Europe and specifically Apulia, Italy.
  
• - The life-histories of megalithic monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). An electronic monograph based on a Ph.D. thesis submitted by Cornelius J Holtorf to the University of Wales.
  
• - In Italy too, there are megalithic monuments.
  
• - A ring of connected sites featuring stone circles, megaliths and other ancient sites.
  
• - Guide to prehistoric monuments by Jan Bily. A large photographic gallery with introduction, maps, glossary, time table and bibliography.
  
• - Russian dolmens and other megaliths including maps, photo gallery and legends. Articles covering history, archaeology and mystic theories.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Hans Meijer provides photographs, descriptions and the story behind all 54 megalithic hunebedden in Holland.
  
• - An article about scientists efforts to preserve the carvings, from the Smithsonian Magazine, Lasting Impressions, Nov 2002
  
• - Web site and CD-ROM based on a doctoral dissertation submitted by Cornelius J. Holtorf to the University of Wales that explores the social and cultural meanings of megaliths from later prehistoric Mecklenburg-Vorpommern located in northeastern Germany.
  
• - Christine Burnett's photographs of Prehistoric sites of the British Isles. Includes stone circles, standing stones, burial chambers, etc.
  
• - The existence of megalithic pyramids in Greece was unknown to most people until recently. One at Hellenikon has been dated to c.2720 BC. Images, description and references.
  
• - Article by Paul Tudor Angel explores the possible origins of "odd rocks" found in the northeastern United States.
  
• - Virtual visit to the prehistoric village of Son Catlar, Minorca. In English, Spanish and Catalan.
  
• - Some of the most interesting megalithic and other archaeological sites in Europe.