The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.

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Your device does not support the audio. NEW ATHENS – State Representative Kevin Schmidt donated his pay raise for the month of January to Church Emergency Services New Athens (CESNA), in the ...

Cancel anytime. ST. CLAIR COUNTY — Commuters who use Interstate 255 will have their daily routines shaken up when a 3.5-mile stretch of the highway in Cahokia Heights and Sauget shuts down ...

CARBONDALE — Coryion Keene was the key for Carbondale in its 55-41 win over Cahokia Friday night. The senior Terrier, the lone senior on Carbondale’s squad, scored the first six points of the ...

Photo from the Atyrau Region's official portal Archaeologists in Kazakhstan recently unearthed a pair of ancient burial mounds linked to a lost empire, officials said. The mounds — which are ...

Ghana, located on the southern coast of West Africa, has more than 500 kilometers of coastline that arcs and juts into bays and points. Along this coast are a multitude of surf spots for those willing ...

And, just as at the highland plateau, these mounds hint at a water-based process that modified the rocks from the top down. That's because the deeper clays are often magnesium-rich, which tends to ...

These mounds, remnants of ancient highlands, reveal a landscape eroded over billions of years, shaping Mars' hemispheric divide. The clay layers, formed by water-rock interactions, provide a ...

Over 15,000 mounds are scattered across Chryse Planitia in Mars’ lowlands – but until recently, no one knew how they got there. Scientists have dug into the history of these geological features ahead ...

Nowadays, students on the LSU campus pay little attention to the dramatic, sloping grassy backdrop on their path to class: the more than 6,000-year-old North American earthen mounds. The mounds ...