Donation Options Search Search Search An aerial view of the 100-foot-high Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, the largest prehistoric earthwork in the Americas. | Courtesy of ...

View of Monks Mound Temple at Cahokia Mounds as seen through the the award-winning app which makes on location views possible. The Cahokia Mounds Museum Society has won an excellence award for ...

At Cahokia, most of the mounds still exist, though some were destroyed before the site was protected. Two mounds that provided a clear view of a drive-in movie theater's screen several miles away ...

Cahokia: A Metropolis of Mounds Eight miles east of St. Louis ... The largest earthen mound in North America, an aerial view of Monk's Mound at Cahokia. (Credit: Matt Gush/Shutterstock) But for all ...

The inhabitants of Cahokia did not use a writing system, and researchers today rely heavily on archaeology to interpret it. The name of the people who built the mounds is lost to time, so the city ...

The collaborative Cahokia Mounds aerial survey conducted flybys over more than 490 acres of the site, the largest single area that this air-based US spy agency has ever surveyed via drone with ...

Cahokia Mounds, some 13 km north-east of ... 1400), when it covered nearly 1,600 ha and included some 120 mounds. It is a striking example of a complex chiefdom society, with many satellite mound ...

The event was the annual equinox sunrise ceremony at Cahokia Mounds National Historic site’s “Woodhenge,” a massive sundial built and added to from the 10th to the 12th century from the ...

many people will be heading to the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, Illinois, to observe the winter solstice. 5 On Your Side Photojournalist Doug Howell explores the world ...