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Tumulus, Obelisks, megaliths, dolmens, menhirs and Memorials

Tumuli, large Obelisks, megaliths, dolmens , menhirs and Burial mounds were antiquity burial sites monuments. So these people commemorated their gods and their dead. This all happened in 4000 BC, and this throughout the European continent. This is around the time where other civilizations like the Egyptians and the Greeks flourished. People come in large numbers at the monuments in France and Germany, but there are plenty of monuments from antiquity to be found in England, just think of Stonehenge . Bretagne (France) Countless megaliths are found in Bretagne , a French province. Carnac is such a place where many megaliths been preserved. A lone Dolmen can be visited in Dol-de-Bretagne . Furthermore, in Bretagne you also find Dolmens back in Camaret-sur-Mer and Locmariaquer . If you visit Le Cairn du Barnenez than you saw the best preserved burial mound . In the past there have been many more such stones present but in Roman times and the Middle Ages they had no eye for these...