Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, and at its peak, the metropolis near modern-day St. Louis was bigger than London.

At Cahokia Mounds’ annual Archaeology Day, hundreds of tourists, families and history buffs took part in activities meant to teach the public how people in the pre-Columbian era lived.

A pre-Columbian metropolis named Cahokia was one of the first cities in North America. It was also very large, and in its heyday, it was bigger than many modern cities like London.

Study Says Cahokia, America's First City, Was a Melting Pot The teeth of ancient inhabitants indicates that massive immigration may have driven the city's explosive growth.

“Cahokia, because it was multiethnic and perhaps even multilingual, must have been a virtual ‘melting pot’ that fostered new ways of living, new political and social patterns and perhaps ...

Cahokia Mounds, some 13 km north-east of St Louis, Missouri, is the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. It was occupied primarily during the Mississippian period (800–1400), when it ...

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.

Researchers have found evidence of a massive flood around 1200 C.E. that may help explain the demise of Cahokia, then the largest city in North America.

"Cahokia is the largest archaeological site in North America, but only about 1% of it has been excavated, so there's so much about the site that we don't know," Rankin said.

“Cahokia is the largest archaeological site in North America, but only about 1% of it has been excavated, so there’s so much about the site that we don’t know,” Rankin said.

Casey Barrier, an associate professor of anthropology at Bryn Mawr College near Philedelphia, uses a Total Station in pilot mapping project at Cahokia Mounds in 2016. The Temple, or Monks’ Mound ...

Mystery behind disappearance of ancient American city finally unravelled Archaeologists suspect city’s disappearance was gradual, not sudden as previously thought ...