Large stone works and how they were made. Sites, measurements, and debates.
Megalithic sites explained with data. Construction, dating, and the questions that remain.
Inside Newgrange, the Neolithic passage tomb aligned to the winter solstice. Explore its age, art, roof-box alignment, and the wider Brú na Bóinne landscape, with Carrowmore context.
Across continents, people carved doorways into living rock, built portal tombs of towering slabs, and told stories about stepping through stone into other worlds. Some are pure legend. Some are
Part of the Tiwanaku complex on Bolivia’s Altiplano, Puma Punku is a platform mound with shattered gateways and ultra-clean andesite cuts that fuel debate about tools, transport, and purpose. Dates cluster in the Middle Horizon, with new reconstructions and surveys still revising the picture.
Baalbek in Lebanon, the Roman Temple of Jupiter sits on a colossal podium that includes the famous Trilithon blocks. Nearby quarries hold even larger unfinished stones, including a 1,650-ton monolith discovered in 2014. The site blends bold engineering, layered religions, and enduring mystery