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Ancient Power in Illinois Part 1: Monks Mound, the Piasa Bird & the Mississippi

Long before St. Louis became the city of the Arch, long before Illinois became Illinois, and long before the Mississippi River was mapped as a border between states, there was Cahokia. The mystery is not whether this region mattered. The mystery is how much we still don’t know.

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