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
They’re relatively unknown in general, so this will help educate people about them and about a cultural religious center for much of a continent. I forgot to say that some of them are astronomically aligned based on a lunar calendar, one cycle of which takes something like 19 years, so they had to keep track of all of that despite having no apparent writing system. Just incredible.
That is incredible! Man I love Lemmy discovery a new YouTube channel were the host does disabled history. She pretty cool. Now this.
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll look for the channel.
https://youtube.com/@MeekaS-ef4mr?si=zsCqu2h6ocT5ozma
Thank you!
You’re welcome.