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The Serpent Mound is now listed as a "Great Wonder of the Ancient World" by National Geographic Magazine. The mound was originally purchased on behalf of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum. In 1900, the land and its ownership were granted to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (a predecessor of the present Ohio Historical Society).
The crater is named after the Serpent Mound, an effigy mound, located on a plateau in Brush Creek Valley within the crater. European-American explorers had already noted the unusual terrain in the 19th century, and it is often speculated that the odd geological features inspired Native Americans to construct the mound at that location.
The Stubbs Earthworks (also known as Bigfoot Earthworks [2] and Warren County Serpent Mound) was a massive Ohio Hopewell culture (100 BCE to 500 CE) archaeological site located in Morrow in Warren County, Ohio.
People on Nias in Indonesia move monoliths to a construction site, c. 1915. This is a list of monoliths organized according to the size of the largest block of stone on the site. A monolith is a large stone which has been used to build a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. In this list at least one colossal stone ...
Now, research building on the two previous studies suggests that Stonehenge may have been reconstructed in England around 2620 to 2480 BC to help unify ancient Britons as newcomers arrived from ...
The Portsmouth Earthworks are a large prehistoric mound complex constructed by the Native American Adena and Ohio Hopewell cultures of eastern North America (100 BCE to 500 CE). [2] The site was one of the largest earthwork ceremonial centers constructed by the Hopewell and is located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, in present ...
This monolith is the latest to appear around the world since at least 2020 when a nearly 12-foot structure was found deep in Utah's desert and vanished days later, manifesting into a pandemic-era ...
A strange monolith found jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas has been taken down by authorities. “It remains unknown how the item got to its location or who might ...