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 ...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. (WGNO) — Nearly 40 years after fragments of a human skull were found along the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, officials have determined the remains date back to prehistoric ...

Hidden in the rural stretches of northeastern Louisiana is one of the United States’ oldest archaeological sites. Poverty Point, a prehistoric earthwork built over 3,000 years ago, continues to puzzle ...

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: ...