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 ...

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 ...

Imagine you're living in ancient times in what is now Ohio. One day you and your friends decide: Let's make a 1,376-foot-long (419-meter-long) snake sculpture on the edge of this meteorite crater over ...

A new controversy has erupted at an historic site after a candlelighting event was abruptly canceled. “We were notified back in mid-November by the Ohio History Connection that they were canceling the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – As the son of a Norwegian and a Swede, Donn Young knows all about Norse mythology. Soon, his neighbors will, too. Young has spent this fall ...

Young sees the serpent as natural to his neighborhood, which also includes the Norse references Walhalla, Gudrun and Brynhild roads, but he was actually inspired by a landscape about 100 miles away.

Whenever I give presentations about the amazing earthworks built by Ohio’s ancient American Indian cultures, a frequently asked question is, “How long did it take to build them?" In a new article on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Serpent Mound in Peebles is the largest surviving prehistoric animal effigy mound in the world, according to the Arc of Appalachia, which manages the property. Built on a ridge above Brush Creek, ...