Dolmen of Menga

The Dolmen of Menga is a megalithic burial mound called a tumulus, an extended barrow form of dolmen, courting from the 3750-3650 BCE approx. It is near Antequera, Malaga, Spain. It is one in every of the largest acknowledged ancient megalithic systems in Europe. It is 27.5 metres lengthy, 6 metres wide and 3.5 metres excessive, and changed into built with 32 megaliths, the biggest weighing approximately 180 tonnes 200 heaps. A very uncommon singularity, in megalithic buildings, is the presence of a deep and narrow well inside the bottom of the chamber. It offers inside the first orthostat of the corridor a chain of anthropomorphic engravings within the shape of a go as well as a celebrity.

The structure of the dolmen is blanketed with a tumulus of 50m in diameter. After of completion of the chamber which possibly served as a grave for the ruling households and the path leading into the center, the stone shape turned into included with soil and constructed up into the hill that may be visible these days. When the grave turned into opened and tested inside the 19th century, archaeologists determined the skeletons of several hundred people inside. The dolmen sits 70 metres from the Dolmen de Vieraand approximately 4 kilometres from any other subterranean structure called Tholos de El Romeral. In 2016, the dolmens of Menga, Viera, and El Romeral had been all inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site beneath the call "Antequera Dolmens Site”.