Ancient megalithic temples dating back to the European Stone Age drive popular imagination. Places like Stonehenge give rise to theories that include everything from ancient druids to signs of the influence of aliens on ancient human civilizations.
The reality is we often know relatively little about these neolithic megastructures. The Near East saw the development of cities like Göbekli Tepe more than 10,000 years ago. At the same time, the Fertile Valley gave birth to various cities and civilizations more than five millennia ago. But Europe didn’t see much grand architecture dating back that far, or at least none that still survives on the landscape today.
But there are a few notable exceptions. Here is a compilation of a few of the grand European megastructures dating back to the Stone Age that we know of today.
