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Did you know there were mega cities in history that were way ahead of their time? Take Mohenjo-Daro in ancient India—it had an advanced drainage system and grid-like streets 4,500 years ago! Or the Mayan city of Tikal, with its towering pyramids and complex water management systems hidden deep in the jungle. PBS / YouTube National Geographic / YouTube CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Indus river: by Avani Tanya, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Mine Action in Syria: by Mil.ru, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Monks Mound: by Skubasteve834, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Ilex vomitoria: by Luteus, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Mohenjodaro: by Saqib Qayyum, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Mohenjo-daro: by Saqib Qayyum, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Other side of Moenjodaro: by Usman.pg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Kos castle: by kallerna, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Temple of Bel: by Zeledi, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Kos-harbour: by Chris Vlachos, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Indus Valley: by KennyOMG, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:In... Gate of Temple of Bel, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Palmyra, Syria: by James Gordon, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., https://www.flickr.com/photos/7913927... Odeon, Kos Town: by Michal Osmenda, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., https://flic.kr/p/9BCfR4 CC SA 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Mohenjodaro Sindh: by M.Imran, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Mohenjo-daro Priesterkönig: by Mamoon Mengal, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., http://www.world66.com/asia/southasia... Palmyre Vue Generale: by Eustache Diemert, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Zanskar rivers: by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Temple of Bel: by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... City of Tadmor: by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Agora of Athens: by DerHexer, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Temple of Bel: by haitham alfalah, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Diocletian's camp: by Ulrich Waack, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., CC BY-SA 3.0 DE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Greece kos city: by Arne Müseler / www.arne-mueseler.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Animation is created by Bright Side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textHave you watched any of the Missing 411 movies? Former police officer, David Paulides, is the guy behind them. He has been collecting records for countless strange missing persons cases across the United States for years, then compiling the ones that have the same fact patterns into books and movies. I've learned much from Paulides, and the disappearances, from staying safe outdoors to always telling someone where you are going, and where you expect to return, as well as place names.What do I mean? He's noticed that place names with Ape or Devil or Spirit in them; like Devil's Lake, Devil's Pass, Ape Canyon, Ape Lake, Spirit Lake, etc, there's an unusual amount of paranormal sightings in those areas, whether it be of Bigfoot, Dogman, Screaming Banshees or the like, the place names give away ancient secrets of the land.That's what led me to this topic. I'll share about some of those pyramids, and one strange pink pyramid that never came to fruition in Colorado!Let's get into it.Show Sources and Further ReadingRock Lake, Wisconsin, WikipediaAncient Aztalan Village, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWisconsin Frights - Rock Lake Pyramids StoryPyramid Lake, Nevada - Curse of the Water Babies (Part 1)Pyramid Lake, Paiute Tribe Reservation, NevadaPyramid Lake and Stone Mother InformationCahokia: The forgotten pyramid of Illinois, Sailingstone TravelCahokia, Monks Mound and the Largest Pyramid in North America, Pyramidomania dot comThe Pink Pyramid of Colorado that Never Was, Colorado Central Magazine Curious Queue Reading List:Alleged Soul-Eating Photographer, Fox NewsTop UFO Hotspots in the US and Where to Watch the Skies, BET USAlaska Pyramid Revealed by China's Nuclear Explosion?Did you know you can text the show directly? Yeah! Look for the hyper button on the top of every episode. Send me fan mail, a comment, a topic you'd like me to cover, or a ghost story. Curious Cat Crew on Socials:Curious Cat on Twitter (X)Curious Cat on InstagramCurious Cat on TikTokArt Director, Nora, has a handmade, ethically-sourced jewelry company!

Subconscious Realms Episode 265 - Exploring Ancient Earthworks Of North America - Chasing Mound Builders - Phillip Paul. Ladies & Gentlemen, on this Episode of Subconscious Realms we welcome the Host & Creator of YouTube Channel; Chasing Mound Builders - Phillip Paul, to discuss Exploring Ancient Earthworks Of North America. A truly Fascinating Realm for sure which Phil Presented a Super Interesting Perspective indeed!!

This episode is a supplemental follow up to Season 4 episode 1 Monks Mound. Going into a little more detail on more of the discovery and the decision on who build these mounds when they were first discovered.Email: diggingdeeperwiththeancients@gmail.comTwitter: @diggingdeeppodFacebook: @diggingdeeperwiththeancientsInstagram: @diggingdeeperwiththeancientsMusic by audionautix.comDont forget to like, review and share. Help us to keep growing

The medieval warm period began in the mid-tenth century, around and about  950 AD. A warmer climate led to higher agricultural yields, and in an agricultural society that meant surplus profits. These were invested in building monasteries and cathedrals; they attracted the attention of larcenous Scandinavians, who became known as the Vikings. Benefiting from warmer temperatures, they traveled widely, built colonies from Greenland to Ireland to central Russia. Nor were they alone. Medieval people settled in sparsely populated internal regions, like Yorkshire, and Abruzzi. And one of the many consequences of this wealth and growing cosmopolitan sphere was a wealthier and vigorous reforming Roman papacy. Europe was not alone in experiencing social, economic, and cultural changes caused by the Medieval warm period. While the climatic changes were different everywhere, my  guest Timothy Pauketat argues that in Meso America the medieval warm period also brought about a period of cultural interchange, stretching from the Mayan kingdoms north across Mexico, into what is now the American southwest, and as far east and north as  the central valley of the Mississippi River.  Timothy Pauketat is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and as Illinois State Archaeologist is the Director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. He is the pre- eminent archaeologist of the Mississippian civilization that centered on the area around modern St. Louis, and his latest book Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality connects the Mississippians to their neighbors near and far. It gives the reader a unique portrait of a world now almost completely lost to us–but still visible, in places, if you know where to look.   For Further Investigation  One of the unique things about Tim Pauketat's book is that each chapter concludes with a list of places to visit that have been mentioned in the chapter, or are related to something in the chapter. Here are a few of them; the descriptions are his own, from Gods of Thunder Teotihuacan, Mexico: "No archaeological site in the Americas, possibly the entire world, is greater in ruins than the Classic-period city of Teotihuacan, north of Mexico City." The website CultureTrip provides the "Ultimate Guide to Discovery Mexico's Teotihaucán." Tamtoc (Tantoc), Mexico: "Fly to the site virtually using Google Earth (Ruinas deTamtoc) before you arrive in the city of Tamuín by car or air.Tamtoc park sits on the inner bend of the Tampaon River, and only the central core of the site is publicly owned. Other portions lie in fields and pastures outside the park boundaries, including the eastern half of the site's largest mound." Horseshoe Lake State Park, Illinois: "To begin your tour of the archaeological site of Cahokia, start with some environmental context... Entering the park, you will immediately see a great oxbow lake in front of you.The other side of this lake is actually an island, with the oxbow and the park continuing to the industrial landscape on the horizon. Even today, Horseshoe Lake and its teeming animal and plant life give you a good idea of the richness and variety of the landscape a thousand years ago." Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois: "After touring the Interpretive Center, exit the building on the west side and walk into the site's Grand Plaza. Ignore the mowed green grass, which would not have covered the grounds centuries ago. It takes ten to fifteen minutes to traverse the plaza to the front steps of Monks Mound, which you climb to reach the 100-foot-high summit. From the top, you can see Horseshoe Lake to the north, St. Louis to the west, and the bluff horizon to the east and south."  

In this episode we go back to North America to learn about one of the largest man made ancient mounds north of Mexico. Why was it built? Who built it? When was it built? We look at all these questions and then we see what kind of influence it has had on modern popular culture.Civilization 4, 5 &6Here be Monsters (2014)Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)DC Comics Detective Comics Vol1 615 (1990)DC Comics Effigy (2015)Wolfpack (2019)Sam & MaxStranger Things Season 1 Episode 1 (2016)West Wing Season 3 Episode 8 (2001)Remember the Titans (2000)Etowah Ridge (TBA)Shamans Mark (TBA)The MothmanEmail: diggingdeeperwiththeancients@gmail.comTwitter: @diggingdeeppodFacebook: @diggingdeeperwiththeancientsInstagram: @diggingdeeperwiththeancientsMusic by audionautix.comDont forget to like, review and share. Help us to keep growing

Hoy exploramos las misteriosas construcciones encontradas en el mid-western de los Estados Unidos, en los valles de los ríos Ohio y Mississippi. Estas estructuras, que parecen tener una intención ceremonial o funeraria, son en su mayoría pirámides truncadas que han sido recubiertas de tierra y sobre las que ha crecido una abundante vegetación, formando unos característicos montículos. Algunas de estas construcciones son monumentales, como el caso de Monks Mound en Illinois, que tiene una altura de 30 metros y una base del mismo tamaño que la Gran Pirámide de Giza. Otras, como el Great Serpent Mound en Ohio, tienen una forma más curiosa y están datadas en torno al siglo I. En cualquier caso, estas construcciones son un testimonio fascinante del pasado de los nativos americanos y han sido objeto de estudio e interpretación durante siglos. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

How often do you think about where your trash goes?On this episode, we start things off with some true crime by presenting the tale of a serial killer. One with a ridiculously high kill count.Then Ian regales us with the legend of the Piasa, a dragon tale from a Native American culture that many people seem to overlook.And finally, that damn garbage barge. We won't spoil anything here, but it isn't headlining this episode because everything went perfectly fine.Let's get weird.Make sure to follow @CultTalkNet on Instagram, Twitter, Patreon, Facebook, and TikTok for more Groovy and Weird content!Whoopsie! In this episode, Ian says that Cahokia is located in Missouri. He's a ding dong, because Cahokia is actually located in Illinois.

Learn about whether it’s better to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond, a mysterious, ancient city called Cahokia that’s, weirdly, just outside St. Louis, and how AI might be able to catch heart disease with a selfie. Curiosity Daily is a finalist in the 2020 Discover Pods Awards, and we need your vote to win! Please vote for Curiosity Daily for Best Technology & Science Podcast via the link below. It's free and only takes a minute. Thanks so much! https://awards.discoverpods.com/vote/ Is It Better to Be a Big Fish in a Small Pond or a Small Fish in a Big Pond? By Kelsey Donk Even When You’re A Member Of An Elite Group, It Can Be Demoralising To Rank Lower Than Your Peers. (2020, September 24). Research Digest; Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/09/24/even-when-youre-a-member-of-an-elite-group-it-can-be-demoralising-to-rank-lower-than-your-peers/#more-40380  Zell, E., & Lesick, T. L. (2020). Taking Social Comparison to the Extremes: The Huge-Fish-Tiny-Pond Effect in Self-Evaluations. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 194855062095653. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620956535  Cahokia Was the Mysterious, Massive Ancient City in ... St. Louis? By Reuben Westmaas Newitz, A. (2016, December 13). Finding North America’s lost medieval city. Ars Technica; Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/theres-a-1000-year-old-lost-city-beneath-the-st-louis-suburbs/  Mound 38 – Monks Mound – Cahokia Mounds. (2015, October 23). Cahokiamounds.Org. https://cahokiamounds.org/mound/mound-38-monks-mound/  Woodhenge - Cahokia Mounds, Illinois. (2020). Scienceviews.Com. https://scienceviews.com/indian/woodhenge.html  AI Might Be Able to Catch Heart Disease with a Selfie by Kelsey Donk “Selfies” could be used to detect heart disease. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/esoc-cb082120.php  Christoffersen, M., Frikke-Schmidt, R., Schnohr, P., Jensen, G. B., Nordestgaard, B. G., & Tybjærg-Hansen, A. (2014). Visible Age-Related Signs and Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease in the General Population. Circulation, 129(9), 990–998. https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.113.001696  Lin, S., Li, Z., Fu, B., Chen, S., Li, X., Wang, Y., Wang, X., Lv, B., Xu, B., Song, X., Zhang, Y.-J., Cheng, X., Huang, W., Pu, J., Zhang, Q., Xia, Y., Du, B., Ji, X., & Zheng, Z. (2020). Feasibility of using deep learning to detect coronary artery disease based on facial photo. European Heart Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa640  Schnohr, P., Lange, P., Nyboe, J., Appleyard, M., & Jensen, G. (1995). Gray hair, baldness, and wrinkles in relation to myocardial infarction: The Copenhagen City Heart Study. American Heart Journal, 130(5), 1003–1010. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-8703(95)90201-5  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Ashley Hamer and Natalia Reagan (filling in for Cody Gough). You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Missippians site we visited was the city of Cahokia, which was a city of 20k people around 1000 CE, and the city was abandoned around 1300 CE. The Monks Mound referred to in the video is a 100 foot high mound, which overlooks the city as the spiritual center.Lt. James Cook encountered the Maori for the first time on October 8, 1769- most of the illustrations of the Maori were from the 1800s, which was also a time period in which they were hunted for their tattooed skin.

Part 5 of 5 of the "What Can Americans Teach Europeans" series Snobby Europeans love to say that Americans have “no cuisine, no culture, no history.” Let’s refute this belief. We’ll begin with food. First, Americans brought hamburgers and Coca-Cola to the world. The French (and many others) will immediately sniff and say, “That doesn’t count.” Really? And foie gras does? That’s a dish that is prepared by force-feeding a poor duck. Now that’s really classy and sophisticated. Big Macs start looking like haute cuisine. Moreover, America’s unique cuisine doesn’t end with a cheeseburger and a Coke. We’ve either invented or popularized: banana splits brownies buffalo wings cheesesteaks corn dogs cotton candy corn on the cob doughnuts fried chicken fudge garden burgers grits hot dogs ice cream cones Jell-O macaroni and cheese mashed potatoes onion rings pancakes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches pecan pie popcorn Popsicles potato chips Rice Krispie treats root beer float shoofly pie sloppy joe submarine sandwiches the Twinkie. Not only does this list prove that Americans have plenty of dishes that are uniquely ours, but this list also explains why we are so incredibly fat. Obviously, American cuisine isn’t the most nutritious cuisine on the planet. The point is that we invented plenty of dishes. Besides, it’s impossible to find any national cuisine that is 100 percent healthy. Since the Japanese live the longest, they have arguably the best diet around. However, even the Japanese eat plenty of deep-fried foods and white rice. And they often wash it down with beer or sake. Yes, Americans have one of the least healthy diets on the planet; on the other hand, I’ve never found a country that can make salads that are as delicious as the ones you can find in California. Finally, America is better than any other country at welcoming (and eating) exotic food from all over the world. Try finding non-Italian cuisine in Italy. The other insult Europeans like to fling at Americans is that we have “no culture.” Really? That’s funny because it seems that no other country does a better job of exporting its culture than America does. It’s hard to go anywhere on the planet and meet people who do not know about American music, television, books, movies, sports, and cuisine (which includes the fast food it invented). Cultural snobs will say all that doesn’t count and that it’s not real culture. Who decided that? Why is the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark not as culturally significant as Schindler’s List? They are both masterpieces (and they happen to both be directed by the same American). Is Michael Jordan not as important as Roger Federer, the Swiss tennis player? Is Elvis less important than Mozart? If American TV is so bad, why do I see it in every country I go to? It’s hard to go anywhere and not see The Discovery Channel. Every major country copies American Idol and other popular TV shows. The world copies American culture. The copying of American culture is so pervasive that most people who complain about “globalization” are really complaining about “Americanization.” Snobs insist this is all “low culture.” First, that’s arrogant and subjective, but let’s play along. If you want “high culture,” then consider American writers (Twain, Fitzgerald, Poe, Thoreau, T.S. Eliot, Kerouac, Tennessee Williams), American fashion designers (Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss), American visual artists (O’Keefe, Pollock, Warhol, Rockwell, Ansel Adams, the sculptors of DC’s monuments), American composers (Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin, Philip Glass, George Gershwin, John Williams), American chefs (Emeril, Nathalie Dupree, Alice Waters, Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain), and American architects (Julia Morgan, Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright). If you admire skyscrapers, remember that Americans were the first to make those too. In short, Americans have culture—in both the “high” and “low” flavors. Finally, the last put down that Europeans lobs at Americans is that America has “no history.” Sadly, this insults the Native Americans more than anyone else. Tell the descendants of the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs that they have no history. Tell the Native Americans in North America that they have no history when most historians estimate that they’ve been running around America ever since they crossed the land bridge near the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago. Several Northern European countries weren’t even populated until 8,000 years ago. American history, therefore, is at least 4,000 years older than the Scandinavian and Baltic history. If you need impressive structures to believe that a country has “history,” then visit the archaeological remains in Monks Mound, Taos, and Chaco. Or visit Teotihuacan, Tikal, and Machu Picchu in Central and South America. Besides, many of Europe’s impressive buildings are only a few hundred years old. Boston’s Faneuil Hall, built in 1743, isn't much younger than many of Europe's most treasured buildings. The dirty little secret that few Europeans will talk about is that many of their “old” buildings were recently reconstructed from scratch. For example, Warsaw and Dresden look like old cities, but all their buildings are younger than Disneyland. Although Eurasians were better at documenting their ancient history than Americans were, it doesn’t mean that Americans don’t have any history. It just means you need to look a bit harder, but it’s there. At best, a few Europeans countries claim that they started in the seventh century, but many were born around the eleventh century. However, these “nations” were fragile and had far more pronounced regional identities than national ones. They weren’t like modern nations today, but rather fiefdoms and small territories clumped together in a quasi-union. Even today, European countries are more regionally focused than nationally focused. In other words, 500 years ago European nations were not much different than the American nations of the Aztecs, Incas, Comanche, and Sioux. Just like Europeans, Native Americans had a hierarchical government, languages, and culture. It’s incredibly Euro-centric (and ignorant) to argue that American history started with the arrival of the Europeans. Yet that’s exactly what many Europeans implicitly do when they say “America has no history.” That’s like Turks saying that European history started when the Ottomans invaded the Balkans 500 years ago. The Slavs would be furious to hear that. The Turks displaced, killed, and mixed with Slavs just like Europeans killed, displaced, and mixed with Native Americans. Some Europeans backpedal out of this argument by saying, “We’re not saying that the American continent has no history, just that America, the country, is young and doesn’t have much history.” And your country does? Apart from Iceland, America has the oldest government in existence. Most European countries formed new governments and new constitutions less than 70 years ago. I hope this shuts up snobs throughout the world who keep spreading the stupid idea that America has “no cuisine, no culture, and no history.” Although I’ve been picking on Europeans, other people are also guilty of promoting this idea. Even Americans do it. It’s time we educate those who are ignorant. In short, I’m not asking anyone to like American cuisine, culture, or history. I’m just asking everyone to stop believing that we don’t have any. Conclusion of the five-part series on What Americans Can Teach Europeans Europeans are right to criticize America’s foreign policy and the CIA because both can be aggressive and unfair. However, let’s give the American empire credit for being the most benign empire ever. Let’s also admit that the CIA doesn’t know and control everything. Similarly, Europeans have a fair point when they say that Americans are fake, ignorant, and a bit low-brow culturally. However, when compared to typical Europeans, we’re not that bad. Pass this on to anyone who tries to argue otherwise. And tell them that a half-French, half-Chilean person wrote it—someone with no American blood in him. Europeans have much to teach Americans, which is why I’ve written a 740-page book that captures the lessons from Eastern Europe. However, this article series is for Europeans, so they can learn a bit more about America and have a more realistic perspective of the United States. Lastly, do Americans have five criticisms about Europeans too? No. Just one. We wish Europeans would catch up to the rest of the world cultures by being a bit more open, warm, friendly, and smiling. Have a nice day! In case you missed it, read part 1 of the What Americans Can Teach Europeans article series.  This is an excerpt from the Appendix of The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us. Although this article is filed in Western Europe, its message is for Eastern Europeans and everyone else on the planet who believes these five American myths. For those who worry that fanatical American patriots have brainwashed me, don't worry. About 99% of my upcoming book is about what Eastern Europeans can teach Americans (hence, the title). I'm simply sharing the 1% of my book that argues the contrary point. Please read the Introduction to The Hidden Europe to get the complete picture. More info You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my newsletter at http://wanderlearn.com. If you like this podcast, subscribe and share!  On social media, my username is always ftapon. Follow me on: http://facebook.com/ftapon http://twitter.com/ftapon http://youtube.com/user/ftapon http://pinterest.com/ftapon http://tumblr.com/ftapon Claim your monthly reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon Rewards start at just $2/month! 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Located in southern Illinois, Monks Mound is a massive earthen structure, made entirely of clay, a material that tends to shrink and collapse over time. How, then, has this monument not collapsed? The latest in science, culture, and history from Smithsonian Channel.

If you ask most Americans about the history of their country, they'll start somewhere around 1492, or maybe even 1776. But before the pilgrims and before John Hancock, of course there were large, thriving civilizations of Native Americans. One of the most notable communities was in Southern Illinois, not too far from St. Louis: Cahokia, a Mississippian community of some 10-20,000 Indians, with perhaps twice as many living around the urban area. Who were the people who lived there? What have archaeologists discovered about their culture? To answer these questions, I chatted with Bill Iseminger, assistant site manager at Cahokia Mounds and the man who literally wrote the book on the historical site. Cahokia Mounds: The largest city you never heard of According to Bill, Cahokia Mounds was the largest prehistoric Indian community in America. The first signs of civilization date it to around 1050 AD, and the city thrived for about 150 years. Cahokia proper comprised of six square miles with more than 120 mounds. Bill first came to the site in the late 1960s, when he was finishing up his master's degree, and received an offer to assist on a dig. He started digging, and never really stopped, and the archaeological site is still active with excavations just about every summer. And the artifacts they've found there has profoundly influenced what we know and think about ancient American Indian cultures today. The city at the center of it all The Cahokia tribes flourished largely thanks to the tremendous natural resources at hand. The site sits at the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers, meaning the soil was rich for agriculture, and transportation made trading with other tribes easy. Bill told me they've found seashells from the Gulf of Mexico and arrowheads from Indiana. In fact, he told me that one presumed leader of Cahokia was buried with more than 1,000 arrowheads, with materials and styles from across America, signaling that perhaps tribes from all over paid tribute to the leader. We don't know much about some aspects of their culture because they didn't have a written language, but Bill and his colleagues have been unearthing mysteries with every dig. The size and scope of Cahokia The historical landscape of Cahokia is fascinating. Monks Mound, the largest pre-Columbian earthen structure in North or South America, stands 100 feet tall and stretches 14 acres. The people who lived there would have had to move 22 million cubic feet of Earth to make such a structure. They also constructed “woodhenges,” circular monuments made of timber, that would have helped them track the calendar—solstices and equinoxes, but their own important dates as well. And to defend their city, they built huge stockade walls, made up of as many as 20,000 logs cut from thousands of trees. We know because of the size of the houses that the Mississippians who lived in Cahokia largely stuck to the nuclear family structure. But the society was very hierarchical. Likely, whether you lived inside or outside the stockade said something of your status. So why then, if Cahokia was so well protected and on such fertile land, did the city eventually come to an end? I'll let Bill fill you in on that. The unfolding legacy of the Cahokia Mounds Today, Cahokia remains one of the richest archaeological sites in North America, and one I highly recommend you add to your list to visit. If you plan your trip right, you can even help with an excavation, either doing the actual digging or just cleaning off the findings. The Cahokia Mounds are incredible monuments to the prominence and sophistication of those early American Indian civilizations. So why don't more people know about them? As Bill jokes, “There's something about piles of earth that's not as exciting to people as piles of stone.” But I think that's something that will change for anyone who tunes into this episode. Outline of This Episode [2:52] Bill discusses his book, Cahokia Mounds: America's First City [6:51] Cahokia's early days [9:45] Why Cahokia? What drew people to the location? [12:13] What are some of the distinctive features of Cahokia? [16:30] The religion of the people [22:26] The good stuff (aka the weaponry) [29:29] What happened in the intervening centuries [35:05] How the public can get involved now Resources & People Mentioned Cahokia Mounds Cahokia Mounds: America's First City My Cahokia Visit Connect With Stephanie stephanie@historyfangirl.com https://historyfangirl.com Support Stephanie on Patreon  

Of all ancient civilizations in North America, human hands have built no greater earthwork than the Monks Mound near East St. Louis, IL. The Mound Builders statesmanship, ambitious projects and workforce make them of the most important cultures of World history. Monks Mound is situated about a mile from the Mississippi River, just north of East St. Louis, Illinois, in central United States. The expertise of the ancient engineers that built the mound is shown through a complex layering of materials to build it. Inspection of the construction sequence of Monks Mound reveals that the final size and shape was part of a highly developed plan. All carefully layered stages of construction proceeded quickly as shown by a complete absence of erosion or layers of vegetation found between layers.The mound consists of more than 2.16 billion pounds of non-local soil types.Other construction materials used in the mound include limestone slabs, bald cypress and red cedar posts. Use of the limestone slabs in mound construction is important as a chronological marker indicating late Archaic construction (3000 - 1000 BC).Please remember to go to the blog and leave your i mpressions...https://remoteviewingguided.blogspot.com

Of all ancient civilizations in North America, human hands have built no greater earthwork than the Monks Mound near East St. Louis, IL. The Mound Builders statesmanship, ambitious projects and workforce make them of the most important cultures of World history. Monks Mound is situated about a mile from the Mississippi River, just north of East St. Louis, Illinois, in central United States.        The expertise of the ancient engineers that built the mound is shown through a complex layering of materials to build it. Inspection of the construction sequence of Monks Mound reveals that the final size and shape was part of a highly developed plan. All carefully layered stages of construction proceeded quickly as shown by a complete absence of erosion or layers of vegetation found between layers. The mound consists of more than 2.16 billion pounds of non-local soil types. Other construction materials used in the mound include limestone slabs, bald cypress and red cedar posts. Use of the limestone slabs in mound construction is important as a chronological marker indicating late Archaic construction (3000 - 1000 BC). Please remember to go to the blog and leave your i mpressions  

Of all ancient civilizations in North America, human hands have built no greater earthwork than the Monks Mound near East St. Louis, IL. The Mound Builders statesmanship, ambitious projects and workforce make them of the most important cultures of World history. Monks Mound is situated about a mile from the Mississippi River, just north of East St. Louis, Illinois, in central United States. The expertise of the ancient engineers that built the mound is shown through a complex layering of materials to build it. Inspection of the construction sequence of Monks Mound reveals that the final size and shape was part of a highly developed plan. All carefully layered stages of construction proceeded quickly as shown by a complete absence of erosion or layers of vegetation found between layers. The mound consists of more than 2.16 billion pounds of non-local soil types. Other construction materials used in the mound include limestone slabs, bald cypress and red cedar posts. Use of the limestone slabs in mound construction is important as a chronological marker indicating late Archaic construction (3000 - 1000 BC). Please remember to go to the blog and leave your i mpressions...https://remoteviewingguided.blogspot.com

Unter den Cahouka Mounds--künstliche Hügel an der Mississippi gegenüber von St Louis--ist Monks Mound der gösste. Es war eine Stadt die zum Höhepunkt im 16. Jhr grösser als Paris war. Monks Mound selber hat mehr Volumen als die Cheops-Pyramide. Und keiner weiss selbst wie die Bewohner hiessen.Eine podcastnik.com Produktion. Siehe die Seite für alle Projekte. ☞ Wir haben eine neue Show (auf englisch), Past Access! (YouTube Link) ☜ Twitter @Travis J Dow | @Podcastnik | @americanapod — Facebook Podcastnik Page— Instagram @podcastnik (Englisch) Podcastnik YouTube | Podcastnik Audio Podcast ★ Unterstützung: PayPal | Patreon | Podcastnik Shop ★Music by Bensound  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Greg Gavin is a remote viewer and he has agreed to take a peek inside Burrows Cave, Monks Mound, and maybe a couple other sites for us. While this isn't exactly the usual scientific fare for the Oopa Loopa Cafe, I think it will be a lot of fun.

Greg Gavin is a remote viewer and he has agreed to take a peek inside Burrows Cave, Monks Mound, and maybe a couple other sites for us. While this isn't exactly the usual scientific fare for the Oopa Loopa Cafe, I think it will be a lot of fun.