UNESCO just added 42 new places to its World Heritage Sites.

Of those 42, just one is in the United States: the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Ohio.

A group of giant mounds built by Native Americans thousands of years ago just became the US’ newest World Heritage Site

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    1 year ago

    Oh excellent! I was hoping that would happen since I read about it a few months ago! Absolutely deserved.

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        1 year ago

        They are often burial mounds, but some are ceremonial. Many don’t exist anymore, or don’t exist as much more than a little bump because they’ve been plowed over. Some were reconstructed in the early 20th century and have nothing under them in either case. But they took an amazing amount of collaborative work, and from the finds in the mounds, it appears that people from the east coast to the Rockies were involved in the building of these mounds. They are not impressive to look at in general, but they are an incredibly important cultural artifact.