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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ohio History Connection is holding Summer Solstice to mark the longest day of the year with programs that showcase the ...

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 ...

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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Saturday is the winter solstice, marking the shortest day — and longest night — of the year. Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have observed this occasion in a variety of ...

Serpent Mound is the largest effigy mound in North America — and one of only two effigy mounds in Ohio. It's worth the 90-minute drive to see this preserved ancient earthwork that stretches 1,330 feet ...

Serpent Mound is a gigantic earthen sculpture of a snake more than 1,300 feet long and around 4 feet high, with its head aligned to the setting sun on the summer solstice. The site in southern Ohio is ...

The Department of Interior’s decision to nominate the Great Circle and Octagon Earthworks for World Heritage status has made us all more aware of these two amazing mounds in Newark and Heath -- and a ...

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 ...