There are similarities between how Egyptian pyramids were built, and the large earthworks constructed by the American Hopewell culture nearly 2,000 years ago, the best-known of which are found in ...

No one knows their real name, so they’re being called the Hopewell Era People. An exhibit of their geometric, astronomical ...

common enough in the Hopewell Culture. The bones had come from a 1980s rescue excavation at the Elizabeth Mounds site in western Illinois. “As soon as I opened it, I said, ‘I think we have a ...

A 1,500-year-old rubbish heap unearthed in southern Ohio holds the answers to some key questions about the ancient Indians who lived there and built huge funeral mounds filled with offerings ...

33rd St. in Newark, the area features mounds of earth constructed in geometric shapes by Native ... The site is a key component of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, which includes eight ...