ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Ancient American Indian burial mounds in Southern Illinois have been damaged and possibly looted, prompting the state's historical agency to call for the public's help in identifying ...

For one of the state’s preeminent experts on ancient Indigenous mounds, it made sense to Kurt Sampson to help write a book about the subject, focusing on a mound-rich region in Wisconsin. It would be ...

Across Louisiana, long earthen ridges and conical hills rise from flat ground, some tucked behind campus buildings, others hidden in pine woods or framed by modern highways. Archaeologists now argue ...

HARPERS FERRY, Iowa (KCRG) - Effigy Mounds National Monument is a sacred site to at least 20 Native American tribes across the Midwest. More than 200 mounds can be found around the site, ranging from ...

At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, ...

Rob Nurre, president of the Wisconsin Archeological Society, is trying to right the wrongs of the past with Milwaukee’s last remaining ancient Indigenous burial mound. Lake Park Mound is situated in ...

State officials are asking the public for information to recover more artifacts stolen from Kolomoki Mounds State Park.

The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in south central Ohio is a group of 2,000-year-old American Indian mounds that will be considered in a few years by the UN for the prestigious World Heritage List.