“Visions of Cahokia,” a 14-minute orchestral poem ... “The city became a major religious center of the Mississippian culture, ...

This story appears in the January 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. If they ever build a Wal-Mart at Machu Picchu, I will think of Collinsville Road. I'm standing at the center of what ...

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site ... The site was once home to the Mississippian culture, a complex society of multiple indigenous tribes that thrived between the years 800 and 1400, making ...