Mound A at Poverty Point World Heritage Site is the largest mound at the site. Located just west of the enclosure of ridges, mound A, which stands more than 70-feet high and measures 640-feet along ...

Poverty Point provides a great example of an indigenous community who not only survived, but thrived, for hundreds of years. Creativity, artistry and craftsmanship were clearly important, as revealed ...

With six vast ridges arcing more than a half-mile, the Poverty Point prehistoric site in Louisiana is one of a kind. The massive earthworks has now been nominated to become a UNESCO World Heritage ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. (WGNO) — Nearly 40 ...

Here's something to think about: When King Tut and Queen Nefertiti each ruled over Egypt, a culture thrived among a series of mounds in a region that would become known as Louisiana. Now ponder this: ...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. (WGNO) — Nearly 40 years after fragments of a human skull were found along the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, officials have determined the remains date back to prehistoric ...