Cahokia was a robust economic and cultural center for the Mississippian people. They built hundreds of massive mounds but suddenly left the city in the 1300s. Built from an estimated 22 million ...

Most folks don’t know America had a city bigger than London back in 1200 CE. Right across from modern St. Louis, Cahokia was ...

An entire civilization that rose from the fecund bottomlands of the Mississippi east of St. Louis, Cahokia drew thousands of Native Americans — 20,000 or more at its peak in the year 1100 — to ...

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 was an iconic Native American city located in what is now southern Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis, Missouri. The settlement was occupied from around ...

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is one of the most studied Native American sites in the country. Recently, Saint Louis University professors, students and visiting ...

ST. LOUIS — A recent study has cast doubt on the long-held belief that drought, caused the decline of Cahokia, a once-thriving Native American settlement near present-day St. Louis. The Cahokia ...

Novelist Francis Spufford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called "Cahokia Jazz." It's a hard-boiled detective novel that imagines an America where Native Americans weren't ...