Dick Shiels, former director of the Newark Earthworks Center at Ohio State University-Newark, explained what World Heritage status would mean for the community back in 2016.

In Newark, Ohio, a swath of land spanning 2,880 acres contains the Octagon Earthworks, “interconnected geometric earth structures” built by Native Americans more than 1,600 years ago. The site ...

The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are eight large earthen enclosures built in Ohio by ancient American Indian peoples between about AD 1 and 400.

The Octagon Mounds, as part of an eight-site Ohio grouping called Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, received the coveted UNESCO World Heritage site designation on Sept. 19, 2023, in Riyadh, Saudi ...

NEWARK, Ohio (WCMH) – Nearly a year and a half after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the state could evict a golf club from the site of 2,000-year-old American Indian earthworks, the parties ...

NEWARK, Ohio — For the first time in more than a century, the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, part of Ohio’s first and only UNESCO World Heritage Site, is fully accessible to the public.The Ohio ...

The Octagon Earthworks and Newark's Great Circle, along with six other earthworks built by the indigenous Hopewell culture around 2,000 years ago, became Ohio's only World Heritage site in Sept. 2023.

NEWARK, Ohio (WCMH) – Nearly a year and a half after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the state could evict a golf club from the site of 2,000-year-old American Indian earthworks, the parties ...

Oct. 15, Newark Earthworks, including the Great Circle Earthworks, 455 Hebron Road in Heath, and the Octagon Earthworks, 125 N. 33rd St. in Newark; tours and speakers from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m ...

The trial was to determine how much Ohio History Connection — which owns the 134-acre golf course property that includes the Newark Earthworks’ Octagon Mounds and leases it to the country club ...

April 18 is World Heritage Day, but Ohio History Connection is celebrating all week at the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, including at Newark's Octagon Earthworks.. The Octagon Earthworks and ...