It's what Cahokia didn't have that's startling, writes Annalee Newitz in their recent book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age. The massive city lacked a permanent marketplace ...

Recent scholarship has refuted a few of these theories without isolating what exactly spelled out Cahokia’s demise. If anything, the mystery of the lost city has only deepened with time.

In last week's issue of the journal Science, Andrew Lawler gives a lengthy report on the forgotten city of Cahokia. For a while now archaeologists have known about this Native American settlement ...

A sprawling Native American metropolis which lay hidden beneath a modern city for a millennium has been uncovered. Archaeologists digging in preparation for the Mississippi River spanning bridge ...

The mysterious, sudden abandonment of the ancient lost city of Cahokia by its inhabitants has been puzzling historians for a long time now – and experts have cast fresh doubt on one of the most ...

Based on what we know from indigenous oral histories and observations by Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries, it’s likely that Cahokia was founded by leaders—or maybe one charismatic leader—who ...

The name of the people who built the mounds is lost to time, so the city was named for the Cahokia Indigenous people who lived in the area during the 17th century, but who are not related to its ...

Ongoing archaeological research continues to uncover new details about the lives, beliefs, and eventual decline of the remarkable people who built the lost city of Cahokia.

In Spufford's mashup of noir with alternative history, however, the lost city of Cahokia endured and evolved into a modern metropolis whose Indigenous, white and African American populations live ...

Anthropologists believe these mounds — including the lost city's largest, the 100-foot Monk Mound — served as high ground to elevate, honor and protect homes of the Cahokia's civic leaders.