Sunday, July 19, 2026
Info on popular culture and everyday life
L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is the only confirmed Norse site in the Americas, dated precisely to the year 1021 CE.
Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound winds for a quarter mile atop an ancient impact crater, and archaeologists still debate who built it and why.
Poverty Point in Louisiana shows hunter-gatherers built massive earthworks and traded across a continent, thousands of years before farming arrived.
Choquequirao, Machu Picchu’s remote sister site, hides llama-shaped terraces and ruins that only a demanding two-day trek can reach.
The Nazca people carved hundreds of massive desert drawings meant to be seen from above, centuries before anyone could have flown over them.