Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound is the most famous Indian mound in America. Years ago, when I worked fulltime at the Newark Earthworks visitors center, it was not at all unusual for someone to walk in with ...

Serpent Mound in Adams County is the most iconic earthen sculpture ever created by the ancestors of North American Indians, but now it can be seen only through a kind of filter. Why? It was damaged by ...

PEEBLES, Ohio – On a lush hilltop deep in Southern Ohio, a giant snake slithers through the grass, its intentions a mystery. Despite more than a century of study, we still don’t know who built the ...

Serpent Mound State Memorial is located at 3850 State Route 73, Peebles OH 45660; 800-752-2757. From the West, take State Route 73 south of Hillsboro. If you reach Locust Grove, you’ve gone 4 miles ...

BRATTON, Ohio — A 19-year-old man, accused of taking a joy ride over an ancient Native American earthwork at Serpent Mound State Memorial, has confessed to the crime and agreed to pay $3,790 to repair ...

The great Serpent Mound of Ohio, which has long been a subject of study and research for American archaeologists, has been given by the Corporation to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...

There are more than 2,000 ancient earthworks in Ohio, including two effigy mounds. One of them is the Great Serpent Mound in Adams County, the largest of its kind in the world. That could change if a ...

Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 62-75 (14 pages) Radiocarbon dates reported by Romain and colleagues (2017) suggesting that Serpent Mound (33AD1) is an Adena ...

If you've never heard of the Ancient Ohio Trail, you're not alone. But this relatively unknown route links sites that are among the most impressive prehistoric landmarks of antiquity. They include ...

A 19-year-old man, accused of taking a joy ride over an ancient Native American earthwork at Serpent Mound, has confessed to the crime and agreed to pay $3,790 in restitution for damages, according to ...

Serpent Mound is one of the most important effigies from prehistoric times found in the United States, but that fact didn't stop one teenager from taking his truck off-roading on one of the smaller ...