When Europeans first arrived in what is now called Ohio they found
massive mysterious earthworks at locations all across the region. They
didn't know what they were or what they represented, over the course of
centuries they altered or destroyed most of them. One of the few that
miraculously survived was located in what is now Newark, Ohio.
In his book "Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of
Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks" James W. Graham tells the story of a pair
of professors from Earlham College who initially arrived in Newark with
doubts about the significance of the massive earthworks there. These
incredible traces of an Indigenous culture ultimately revealed that they
had definite and intentional reasons for building them.
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