Earthworks

The 2,000-year-old earthworks will be featured in an episode of "Doodles and Digits: How It's Math" on PBS on September 22.

Retired architecture professor John Hancock has studied Ohio earthworks for decades. This year, he published two books on the subject, designed to help visitors explore the historic monuments.

Archaeologists recently began digging in a field in Granville after a perfect circle appeared in their subsurface imaging. They believe it could be the remnants of an ancient Hopewell earthwork.

The project is a collaboration between WOSU Public Media, the Ohio History Connection, the National Park Service and a Tribal Advisory Council.

The artists hail from the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe, the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. The exhibit "Ohi:yo’: We’re Still Here" is available to view at the Bryn Du Mansion in Granville until Nov. 26.

The project is a collaboration between WOSU Public Media, the Ohio History Connection, the National Park Service and a Tribal Advisory Council.

Saturday's alignment wasn't the northernmost moon rise of the cycle, but it was close enough to provide a sense of what ancient people would have seen.

Eight ancient earthworks make up Ohio’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site. Until recently, one of them was a golf course.

The U.S. exit from the United Nations’ cultural agency leaves some archaeologists and American Indian leaders worried that Ohio’s Serpent Mound will face big barriers to being listed as a World Heritage site.

The Octagon Earthworks were, until recently, the site of Moundbuilders Country Club. The site became fully accessible to the public Jan. 1.