Located across the Mississippi River east of modern-day St. Louis, Cahokia was in its day the largest North American city above Mexico. Its 20,000 souls belonged to a group of Algonquian-speaking ...

An expansive city flourished almost a thousand years ago in the bottomlands of the Mississippi River across the water from where St. Louis, Missouri stands today. It was one of the greatest ...

Ten hours of sleep and a coffee addiction so dangerous it mirrors delirium tremens isn't always enough to keep Gut Check spry at work, so we're somewhat embarrassed to learn that prehistoric Cahokians ...

In the ancient Mississippian settlement of Cahokia, vast social events – not trade or the economy – were the founding principle. Pity the event planners tasked with managing Cahokia's wildest parties.

Based on what we know from indigenous oral histories and observations by Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries, it’s likely that Cahokia was founded by leaders—or maybe one charismatic leader—who ...

It is a lost city of the plains, a pyramid-studded metropolis on the Mississippi that stood for more than a century, a place of culture, sport and worship. Yet many Americans know little of Cahokia — ...

Researchers ditched many of their high-tech tools and turned to large stones, fire and some old-fashioned elbow grease to recreate techniques used by Native American coppersmiths who lived more than ...

Nine hundred years ago, the Cahokia Mounds settlement just across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis bustled with roughly 50,000 people in the metropolitan area, making it one of the ...

The Mississippi River has its mysteries, but none that can touch the one that unfolded on its banks 1,000 years ago in what is now southwestern Illinois, across the river from St. Louis. We began the ...

Jayur Mehta received funding from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for parts of this research. An expansive city flourished almost a thousand years ago in the bottomlands of the ...

In the ancient Mississippian settlement of Cahokia, vast social events – not trade or the economy – were the founding principle. Pity the event planners tasked with managing Cahokia's wildest parties.

An expansive city flourished almost a thousand years ago in the bottomlands of the Mississippi River across the water from where St. Louis, Missouri stands today. It was one of the greatest ...