The word dolmen entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used it to describe megalithic … See more

It remains unclear when, why and by whom the earliest dolmens were made. The oldest known are found in Western Europe, dating from c. 7,000 years ago. Archaeologists still do not know who erected these dolmens, which mak… See more

Dolmens can be found in the Levant, some along the Jordan Rift Valley (Upper Galilee in Israel, the Golan Heights, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and southeast Turkey.
Dolmens in the Levant belong to a different, unrelated tr… See more

Dolmens were built in Korea from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age, with about 40,000 to be found throughout the peninsula. In 2000, the dolmen groups of Jukrim-ri and Dosan-ri in Gochang, Hyosan-ri and Daes… See more

• Irish megalithic tombs
• List of dolmens
• List of megalithic sites
• Megalithic art
• Neolithic Europe… See more

• Cooney, Gabriel (2023). Death in Irish Prehistory. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 978-1-8020-5009-7.
• Holcombe, Charles (2011). A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-Fir… See more