Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOUISIANA (KLFY) — In Louisiana sits one the United States oldest indigenous cultural and historical sites, but years on from its ...

Mound A at Poverty Point World Heritage Site is the largest mound at the site. Located just west of the enclosure of ridges, mound A, which stands more than 70-feet high and measures 640-feet along ...

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—It had been previously thought that the Poverty Point earthworks in northeastern Louisiana were inhabited some 3,500 years ago by a complex, hierarchical society ruled as a ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a vast, temporary gathering of egalitarian communities seeking spiritual harmony ...

Hidden in the rural stretches of northeastern Louisiana is one of the United States’ oldest archaeological sites. Poverty Point, a prehistoric earthwork built over 3,000 years ago, continues to puzzle ...

By some miracle of estimation, archaeologists claim that 23,000 people lived at Poverty Point in 1300 B.C. during the height of its culture, the same period that King Tutankhamun ruled Egypt. They ...

OAK GROVE, La. (AP) — A northeast Louisiana chamber of commerce says that starting next year, its spring festival will celebrate the Poverty Point World Heritage Site instead of sweet potatoes. The ...

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Here's something to think about: When King Tut and Queen Nefertiti each ruled over Egypt, a culture thrived among a series of mounds in a region that would become known as Louisiana. Now ponder this: ...