It was a curious skull that some grave-openers in Ohio stood gazing upon last week. It bore a copper nose, supplied by a mortician who evidently knew that cartilage decays and that one would not want ...

AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations ...

A team of archeologists descends on an Indiana town to unearth the mysteries of the Mound Builders. As they excavate the remains of this Native American civilization, they confront powerful and ...

At an archeological dig in the Midwest, a party of university scientists are unearthing vestiges of a lost indigenous civilization. They are joined by family, associates, and an outsider with ulterior ...

More than 1,000 years after Alabama was home to one of the largest and most important Native American cultures ever to exist, the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) is planning an exhibit with some of the ...

What Is the Story of The Mound Builders? Set in the mid ‘70s, The Mound Builders tells the story of Professor August Howe and Dr. Dan Loggins, a team of archaeologists who rent a house for the summer ...

Minnesota geological survey report, 1879: Artificial mounds were noted at the northwest side of Lake Brewster in the south part of section 29, Glencoe. They are much scattered – probably numbering 15 ...

Lanford Wilson’s “The Mound Builders,” now at the Open Fist, is one of the playwright’s strongest works, a discursive yet pointed drama that only occasionally lapses into the self-conscious chatter to ...

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Angel Mounds, located along the Ohio River in southwestern Indiana, was an important center of the Mississippian culture between about AD 1000 and 1450. This ancient American Indian town sprawled ...