Rising above the end of this city’s central avenue, the prehistoric Criel Mound—one of the largest burial mounds in West ...

During the Mississippian Period, the Muskogean people built the Ocmulgee Mounds on the land for meetings, agriculture, and burials. The park and preserve would raise awareness about this historical ...

But the origins are filled with controversy. In 1939, the university’s student-led newspaper “The Mississippian” reported that Meek was inspired “from the language of the Ante-bellum ...

Nature gives us so much, from the food we eat to the air we breathe; it keeps us healthy and thriving. WWF’s Earth Hour is the perfect moment to switch off and give back to the planet. Because when we ...

Macon, Georgia, Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park, sign keep off mound. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 33,658 people played the daily Crossword recently.

The fortress featured defensive features such as large ditches and earthen mounds, with some ditches reaching lengths of several hundred meters, indicating considerable human effort in their ...

Ken Mungai / BBC The smell of death lingers in the air Ahmed Sharfi Cemetery where there are row after row of brown earth mounds - some marked, some not One person undoubtedly cheering on the ...

The swastika symbol was constructed using wood, but many other geoglyphs in the region were made of earthen mounds. It is claimed that the enormous ground images date back two thousand years ago. This ...

The community accused her of "blatantly ignoring" an enforcement notice that demanded the removal of unauthorised earth mounds constructed without consent. Representatives for Sarah have been ...

The mounds were built for various purposes, with the two tallest being where the chief and second-chief would have lived during the Mississippian Period and another being used for funerals.

In fact, there are a variety of April holidays to celebrate all month long, including April Fools' Day, Easter, Arbor Day and Earth Day. In 2025, Earth Day falls on Tuesday, April 22. The annual ...

One of them is my whole southeastern Ohio topography. There were these ancient mounds built, earth mounds, effigies. Some were ones called the Serpent Mound; it is this beautiful snake. Others were ...