This episode explores the history, cultural significance and global importance as a UNESECO World Heritage site, featuring insights from Ohio State Professors. John Low is a Ohio State professor and ...

The tribes that existed then had no connection to the mounds and earthworks. The Mound-Builder era ended around 1,600 years before, and their earthworks remained unused since then.

Two thousand years after ancestors of American Indians created the Newark Earthworks and more than 500 other geometric earthworks across Ohio — and nearly 200 years since American Indian tribes ...

The Octagon Earthworks and Newark's Great Circle, along with six other earthworks built by the indigenous Hopewell culture around 2,000 years ago, became Ohio's only World Heritage site in Sept. 2023.

Two remain and we’ve got them both." Moonrise above the south wall at the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio, early Sept. 7, 2015. Moon images taken at three-minute intervals.

Nearly 2,000 years ago ancestors of today’s American Indians built incredible earthworks in what is today Newark and Heath, Ohio: a circle 1,200 feet in diameter, a square whose walls each ...

Most people think of the Newark Earthworks, ancient earthen walls built by the Hopewell culture 2,000 years ago, as two separate parks – the Great Circle in Heath and the Octagon Earthworks in ...

NEWARK — Newark and other Ohio sites may soon have World Heritage status. A group of eight Ohio prehistoric earthworks sites, including ones in Newark and Chillicothe, may soon become Ohio’s ...

I’ve talked about places in the 4½-square-mile complex of the Newark Earthworks, extending between and encompassing both the Octagon and the Great Circle, where the land slopes.

The tribes that existed then had no connection to the mounds and earthworks. The Mound-Builder era ended around 1,600 years before, and their earthworks remained unused since then.