Ancient Tombs Older Than Egypt’s Pyramids Emerge in Poland

The Neolithic Age may be something of a misnomer, falsely offering stone rather than perishable wood as the period’s primary building material, but its monumental architectures sure make a compelling counterpoint. England has massive stone circles, France rows of upright megaliths, and Poland, somewhat less famously, pyramids.


Also known as Giant’s Graves or Kujawian mounds, after the area in northwestern Poland where they were first identified in the mid-1930s, the pyramids were megalithic tombs built in the 4th millennium B.C.E. to house the remains of a single important community figure. Less dramatic than their later Egyptian equivalents, the pyramids were built by agricultural settlers in the dense forests of Central Europe and take the form of elongated triangular earth mounds lined with massive stones.

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