Birdman tabletThis circa A.D. 1300 sandstone tablet was found on the east side of Monks Mound at Cahokia. Ira Block/National Geographic Image Collection From the flat top of the colossal Monks ...

Susan Goldberg is National Geographic’s editorial director. And I’m Amy Briggs. See you next time. Learn more about Cahokia—and see depictions of America’s first city, as well as artifacts ...

(Read "Cahokia: America's Forgotten City" in National Geographic magazine.) But a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science may shed fresh light on how this city of thousands ...

A couple centuries after its birth it went into decline, and by 1400 it was deserted. The story of Cahokia has mystified archaeologists ever since they laid eyes on its earthen mounds—scores of ...

Cahokia Mounds may not be aesthetically pristine ... Author Glenn Hodges is a former staff writer for National Geographic. Photographers Ira Block and Don Burmeister are based in New York City.

and played a critical role in the total abandonment of Cahokia within 150 years. Munoz, whose research was funded in part by a Young Explorers Grant from the National Geographic Society ...

Teotihuacan, Cahokia, and other metropolises featured striking religious centers, multifamily dwellings, and burial mounds, only to vanish. Archaeology is slowly revealing their splendid pasts.

COLLINSVILLE — A movement to designate Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site as part of the National Park System may be picking up again. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have ...

Rankin began conducting excavations at Cahokia in 2017, when she was a doctoral student at Washington University in St. Louis, notes National Geographic. Upon studying soil samples collected near ...