A group of mounds and a habitation site near Willow Creek have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

CLAYTON, Iowa - The Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument is a hidden wonder. A dozen miles downstream from the park's visitor center along the Mississippi River, the path starts with a ...

A 205-foot-long, scorpion-shaped mound in Mexico likely helped Mesoamericans mark the summer and winter solstices, a new ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns called our national parks “America’s Best Idea.” As distinctly American ...

In 2014, researchers documented a scorpion-shaped mound located within a possible ceremonial complex in Mexico.

The scorpion-shaped mound is strategically placed in the center of the largest preserved prehistoric irrigation system in ...

National Park Service museum technician Sheila Oberreuter walks Sept. 13 along coir logs put in place two seasons ago to provide temporary protection from erosion at the Sny Magill unit of Effigy ...

(CNN) — Brian Gibbs put on his gray and green park ranger uniform Friday for his dream job teaching people about Iowa’s Effigy Mounds National Monument. The education technician walked in ready to ...

Brian Gibbs lost his job as a national park ranger on Friday. He was working as an environmental educator at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa. It was his "dream job," he wrote in ...