Ohio has only two effigy mounds, mounds built in the shapes of animals: the Serpent in Adams County and the so-called “Alligator” in Licking County, which likely represents an Underwater ...

Yet Serpent Mound really isn’t so big by modern standards. ... Heading west on Collinsville Road, drive 1.3 miles to the entrance of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.

Monks Mound is the centerpiece of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Photograph by Ira Block. December 7, 2021 ... like a fanged water spirit that’s part serpent with deer antlers.

One of the mounds at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, which preserves the remains of an Indigenous city that flourished from 1050 to 1500. (Image credit: Michael S. Lewis/Getty Images) ...

Serpent Mound is a monumental sculpture of the Great Serpent, Lord of the Beneath World. In many indigenous American traditions, this huge and powerful being appears in the night sky as the Milky Way.

It once covered more than 1,600 hectares and included some 120 mounds. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site includes 51 platform, ridgetop, and conical mounds; residential, public, and specialized ...

The Cahokia Mounds Museum Society has won an excellence award for its “Back to the City of the Sun” augmented reality experience visitors can have through their smartphones.

CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois — I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along ...

Cahokia Mounds was the center of the North American mound-building culture, reaching its height by about C.E. 1200. However, within 200 years, the city and surrounding villages were largely ...

A pre-Columbian metropolis named Cahokia was one of the first cities in North America. It was also very large, ... It contained at least 120 mounds and a population of 10,000 to 20,000.

James Lee III’s “Visions of Cahokia” explores the birth and death of a Native American city that was settled around 600 B.C. in a section of southern Illinois near St. Louis.