Over the course of three centuries, Cahokia became a metropolis that spanned more than 4,000 acres. A vibrant cultural center, the ancient city was a center of commerce. Some artifacts are made ...

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is one of the most studied Native American sites in the country. Recently, Saint Louis University professors, students and visiting scholars took a closer ...

Often overlooked in narratives of ancient civilizations, the archaeological site of Cahokia in the Mississippi River Valley reveals the impressive scale and complexity of a pre-Columbian society that ...

Instead of imagining the thousands of people who once teemed on the grand plaza here, I keep returning to the fact that Cahokia Mounds in Illinois is one of only eight cultural World Heritage ...

One of the more than 100 earthen mounds preserved at the Mounds State Historic Site Getty Images At its peak around the turn of the first millennium, Cahokia, a city in what is now Illinois ...

Cahokia High School was built in 1951 with a boiler system from a World War II submarine. The building also lacks a modern heating, ventilation and air conditioning system and has about $40 ...

Cahokia Heights residents are being exposed to bacteria and parasites possibly spreading because of chronic sewage backups and flooding in their community, preliminary findings from an ongoing ...

The department's Cahokia Mounds Archaeology Field School provides this ... interpret, preserve and learn from artifacts, features and ecofacts. Students learn to process, inventory, analyze and ...