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Kharkiv Historical Museum

Tour the museum virtually on Google Street View. The M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum is a history museum located in Kharkiv, Ukraine, currently just 20 miles from the front line. It is dedicated to history and culture of Ukraine and ethnicities living here. The museum has a rich collection of archaeological finds from ancient settlements and burial grounds.

Watch Croft Settlements

Ancient Settlements with many hut circles, some with large stones. Near Morvah in Cornwall

Orkesta Runestones

The Orkesta Runestones are a set of runestones engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark alphabet that are located at the Church of Orkesta, northeast of Stockholm in Sweden. Several of the stones were raised by, or in memory of, the Swedish Viking Ulf of Borresta.

Cors y Gedol

The remains of the 25m (84ft) cairn of Cors y Gedol lie on the slopes of Moelfre. Little remains of the burial chamber itself apart from a capstone leaning against the cairn and a single standing stone to the east. A similar stone stands at the northern end with another fallen one further north. The site was sketched by William Stukeley in 1766.

Bulford Reconstructed Henges

Two reconstructed henges at Bulford, near the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in a wonderful landscape setting.

Carn Liath (Sutherland)

Carn Liath was originally thought to be a burial cairn or carn until excavations revealed it was a broch - however the name carn remains in use today. There have been two excavations at this site, the first by the Duke of Sutherland in the 19th century which unearthed a variety of artifacts ranging from pottery sherds, stone hammers, querns, combs and other domestic articles to a whale bone club.

Dun Geilbt

No roads lead to the remote Dun Geilbt at the southern end of the Isle of Skye so we kayaked out to see it - a dramatic location.

Pronssikautinen hauta Meilahti (1)

This Bronze Age grave near Helsinki is located right next to the street with a beautiful view of the sea, opposite a clinic. A spear chain surrounds the damaged grave. According to the information board, the grave was built around 2000 BC.

Højby Langdysse

Langdysse Stårup (long barrow) 34 x 7 meters in size. The chamber measures 2.17 x 1.50 meters. It has 5 orthostats and 1 large capstone, with cupmarks.

Callacpuma

The Callacpuma archaeological site within the city of Cajamarca in Peru, known for its extraordinary rock cave paintings estimated at 4750 ya, indicates the site was occupied from the late pre-ceramic period onward. Recent discoveries indicate the inhabitants also produced megalithic structures among the earliest identified in South America.