Serpent Mound in Adams County is the most iconic earthen sculpture ever created by the ancestors of North American Indians, but now it can be seen only through a kind of filter. Why? It was damaged by ...

PEEBLES, Ohio – On a lush hilltop deep in Southern Ohio, a giant snake slithers through the grass, its intentions a mystery. Despite more than a century of study, we still don’t know who built the ...

The great Serpent Mound of Ohio, which has long been a subject of study and research for American archaeologists, has been given by the Corporation to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...

Aerial views of the oldest surviving animal effigy mound in the world. Serpent Mound is the largest effigy mound in North America — and one of only two effigy mounds in Ohio. It's worth the 90-minute ...

Imagine you're living in ancient times in what is now Ohio. One day you and your friends decide: Let's make a 1,376-foot-long (419-meter-long) snake sculpture on the edge of this meteorite crater over ...

Serpent Mound draws diverse groups of people — school children on field trips, archaeologists and other scientists, including geologists. The park is inside Serpent Mound Crater, “an impact crater — ...

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Major Dache M. Reeves photographs of Ohio Mounds, image #, NMAI.AC.154; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian ...

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