Carnac alignments belongs to the years before the Common Era — dated here to c. 3300 BCE at Brittany, France. The date is a scholarly centre of gravity, not a foundation-stone timestamp.
Thousands of standing stones in parallel files that run for kilometres — the largest megalithic installation in the world.
How it was made
Menhirs graded in height, multiple alignments (Ménec, Kermario). Purpose unknown; labour obvious.
Why it still counts as a wonder
It never needed a Greek list to be a wonder: the labour, the alignment, or the survival is enough.
If Stonehenge is a sentence, Carnac is an epic poem in granite.
On dating
BCE in this series means years before the traditional birth of Christ, counted backward. A monument listed as c. 3300 BCE may have been founded earlier, rebuilt later, or famous only in one phase. Where ancient writers disagree — as they do for Babylon’s gardens — we say so.
This is story 80 of 100 in The Trend Ledger’s illustrated desk on world wonders raised before the Common Era.