Spotted a weird stone pattern at the Cahokia Mounds visitor center

Last week, I was at the Cahokia Mounds visitor center in Illinois and saw a display about how they map the old city layout. It got me thinking about how much has changed since I first visited three years ago. Back then, most of the talk was about the big mounds, but now they're using ground-penetrating radar to find whole neighborhoods we never knew were there. Just last month, they announced they'd found over 100 new house sites using that tech. It's wild to see a place I thought was fully explored keep giving up new secrets. Anyone else visited a site recently and been surprised by how much the story has changed?

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derek784d ago

Makes me realize how much we think we know about a place is just the surface stuff. Saw the same thing when they redid the local history museum, turns out our whole downtown was built over older streets.

singh.wren4d ago

Ever think you knew a whole town's story?