Discover the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Louisiana, which offers visitors a chance to explore a protected location whose ...

LiDAR map of Poverty Point. Image courtesy of the Poverty Point Station Archaeology Program, University of Louisiana at Monroe Subscribe Now KLFY Daily Digest ...

Mound A at Poverty Point World Heritage Site is the largest mound at the site. Located just west of the enclosure of ridges, mound A, which stands more than 70-feet high and measures 640-feet ...

Poverty Point Reservoir State Park provides RV camping, cabins, and lodges for overnight guests; fishers show up at dawn to set out onto the lake for rich catches of catfish, bream, bass, white ...

When Poverty Point was purchased by the state of Louisiana in 1972, it was through the assistance and encouragement of local community leaders.

This event is a lecture that highlights the Poverty Point World Heritage Site. This earthworks complex was built and occupied by Native American Indians from about 1700 to 1100 BCE in what is ...

The prehistoric earthworks of Poverty Point in Louisiana and a collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings across the United States will be nominated by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for the U.N ...

It’s a Louisiana state park that is located in an area where native people lived thousands of years ago. Today, there is great fishing and a beach for swimming near the site of ancient mounds.

This past year Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For many, it was an honor long overdue. For others, a new discovery, for this unassuming historic ...

Poverty Point, which remains under Louisiana control as a state historical site, now stands beside iconic international cultural landmarks like Stonehenge in England, the Pyramid Fields at Giza in ...

In Louisiana sits one the United States oldest indigenous cultural and historical sites, but years on from its discovery scientist still debate what it was used for.

A United Nations agency has named Poverty Point State Historic Site in West Carroll Parish as a World Heritage site.