Ohio's history spans from ancient Native American cultures to its current role in the United States. This video traces the ...

Earthworks have been linked to ceremonial and defensive uses, and they offer a glimpse of what ancient settlements may have looked like. Many Amazonian earthworks that predate the arrival of ...

The massive earthworks comprise eight ancient sites spread across 150 kilometers (90 miles) of what is present-day southern Ohio, including one located on the grounds of a private golf course and ...

Despite names like 'Fort' Ancient, the earthworks served as ceremonial centers, not military ones. "Fort Ancient is one of the types of earthworks that these people build – it is what we will ...

Despite its grand scope, Fort Ancient is perhaps the least dramatic visually of the three World Heritage sites, in part because the foliage of the park helps to camouflage the vast earthworks ...

A network of ancient American Indian ceremonial and burial mounds in Ohio described as "part cathedral, part cemetery and part astronomical observatory" was added Tuesday to the list of UNESCO ...

They represent the remnants of a variety of sites and structures built by ancient Indigenous peoples. The previously unknown earthworks include the remains of an ancient town, fortified villages ...

A calendar marking mound at Fort Ancient is one of four that were used to track the passage of time. Thursday marks one year since Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks were inscribed on the ...

The other events include: The Sept. 19 commemoration for Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve, 6123 State Route 350 in Oregonia, will begin at 3 p.m. with a plaque-unveiling ceremony and ...

By Sarah Bahr For more than a century, golfers at a course in central Ohio have navigated ancient Native American earthworks built to measure the movement of the sun and the moon through the heavens.

It wasn’t until the late 1970s when a team of archaeologists figured out that these trenches were actually ancient earthworks. At the time “nobody thought that giant structures like these ...