Representatives from UNESCO will make site visits this summer to Poverty Point, an archeological site in northeast Louisiana where mammoth earthen mounds were erected some 3,000 years ago. Poverty ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E ...

Polished stone tools, such as these plummets, used as weights for fishing nets, were made circa 1500 B.C. at Poverty Point. For summer vacation two years ago, Jackie and I determined to travel to ...

Hidden in the rural stretches of northeastern Louisiana is one of the United States’ oldest archaeological sites. Poverty ...