My husband and I were fascinated when we visited Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, to see this history in person. Here’s why you need to go, too.
Cahokia Mounds, archaeological site occupying some 5 square miles (13 square km) on the Mississippi River floodplain opposite St. Louis, Missouri, near Cahokia and Collinsville, southwestern Illinois, U.S. The site originally consisted of about 120 mounds spread over 6 square miles (16 square km),
Archaeologists digging in preparation for the Mississippi River spanning bridge - which will connect Missouri and Illinois - discovered the lost city of Cahokia beneath modern St Louis.
Exploring the ancient Mississippian culture at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, Illinois. The site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Monk's Mound is the largest earthenwork mound in the Americas.
Artifacts help us understand the history of our land dating back thousands of years. These Missouri archaeological sites are amazing!
Learn all about the most interesting remains of an ancient civilization in Illinois. This intriguing spot is just like England's Stonehenge.
Piasa monster (restored) – from shell cup – Spiro OK
My husband and I were fascinated when we visited Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, to see this history in person. Here’s why you need to go, too.
Bree Beaudry called standing on top of Monks Mound an "almost spiritual" experience.
In the ancient Mississippian settlement of Cahokia, vast social events – not trade or the economy – were the founding principle.
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Long before Columbus reached the Americas, Cahokia was the biggest, most cosmopolitan city north of Mexico. Yet by 1350 it had been deserted by its native inhabitants the Mississippians – and no one is sure why
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the history of an advanced pre-Columbian civilization. Learn about this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA—National Public Radio reports that climatologist Broxton Bird of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and […]
Experts believe they may have solved the mystery of why America's first metropolis, Cahokia, became a major political and cultural centre until 1200 - but then disappeared.
Mississippian culture, the last major prehistoric cultural development in North America, lasting from about 700 CE to the arrival of the first Europeans. It spread over a great area of the Southeast and the mid-continent, as far south and east as Georgia, as far north as Minnesota, and as far west as the Great Plains.
By studying plant seeds and spores in the soil used to construct Monk’s Mound, the largest prehistoric earthen structure in North America, archaeologists have determined that it was not built over the course of 250 years, as previously thought, but in a fraction of that time.
People hunted and raised small farms near the ruins of the ancient city.
Researchers had speculated that victims of human sacrifice found at the Native American site Cahokia in Illinois were brought in from outside the area, perhaps as tribute. But a new analysis of the element strontium in the victims’ teeth shows they were mainly local—especially the 39 people brutally killed and unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave.
The teeth of ancient inhabitants indicates that massive immigration may have driven the city's explosive growth.
METRO EAST — Today, Governor JB Pritzker joined Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton, along with state and local officials at Maplewood School in Cahokia
