This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Within a few miles of Rock Island lie several prehistoric mounds of the kind that dot much of the Mississippi ...

Bill Egan will share his expertise on Cahokia Mounds at the next in the series of talks presented by the Historic Elsah Foundation. You are invited to the event on Thursday, May 14 at pm at the Farley ...

An ancient city, which vanished under mysterious circumstances, was once a huge, thriving up before America was discovered. The vanished metropolis boasted a population larger than London and is ...

The Interpretive Center at Cahokia Mounds World Heritage Site in Collinsville should finally reopen to the public by the end of summer as the often-delayed $12 million construction project there nears ...

Cahokia was the largest city ever built in the pre-columbian United States. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, this city of great mounds and plazas continues to capture our imagination. Join me as I ...

Cahokia District 187 Superintendent Curtis McCall, Jr. speaks during a public meeting about plans for constructing a new Cahokia High School in the current high school’s gym in Cahokia Heights, Ill., ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a vast, temporary gathering of egalitarian communities seeking spiritual harmony ...

Pre-Columbia, Cahokia Mounds was the largest, most complex urban center north of Mexico. Between 1050 and 1200 CE, Cahokia was larger than London with nearly 20,000 residents. The reasons for ...

CENTRALIA — The beginning was better for the Centralia Orphans but the end still belonged to Cahokia. The Comanches spotted the hosts a touchdown in the first quarter before scoring five straight of ...

Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeast Louisiana. “Conservatively, they ...

NATCHITOCHES, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” long before people from “the old world” ...

An annual lecture series presented by New Philadelphia Association returns this week with a discussion of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site and the people who lived there. The annual Marvin J. and ...