New evidence suggests Poverty Point’s monumental mounds were created not by a ruling elite, but by egalitarian groups drawn together by shared ritual purpose. Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer ...

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 ...

A major new study challenges long-standing ideas about who built Poverty Point, one of the Americas’ oldest monuments, 3,500 years ago ...

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 ...

When it comes to experts on the ancient cultures that once inhabited Louisiana, Diana Greenlee vies for the top of the list. She is the University of Monroe's station archaeologist at the Poverty ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOUISIANA (KLFY) — In Louisiana sits one the ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. (WGNO) — Nearly 40 ...

DUTY SO THAT HE CAN RECOVER AT HOME. ALL RIGHT, SOME OF THE WORLD’S LEADING ARCHEOLOGISTS ARE IN NEW ORLEANS THIS WEEK FOR AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY IS HOSTING ITS ...

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: ...