Yet Serpent Mound really isn’t so big by modern ... Heading west on Collinsville Road, drive 1.3 miles to the entrance of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. It’s hard to say which is worse ...

Cahokia Mounds, located near Collinsville ... its pristine skies offering a view of the cosmos that connects past and present. Serpent Mound in Adams County is the world’s largest surviving ...

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 ...

Cahokia was a robust economic and cultural center for the Mississippian people. They built hundreds of massive mounds but suddenly left the city in the 1300s. Built from an estimated 22 million ...

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 ...

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Today, some 80 man-made mounds testify to the remains of the ancient city. In Spufford’s invention, Cahokia endured and evolved into a modern metropolis whose Indigenous, White and Black ...

But just 250 years later, Cahokia was abandoned, the grass on its 120 earthen mounds growing tall and untended. Researchers are still trying to figure out why. Some have proposed that Cahokia’s ...

Today, only some 80 man-made mounds testify to the remains of the ancient city. In Spufford's mashup of noir with alternative history, however, the lost city of Cahokia endured and evolved into a ...