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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio. A jury trial that was slated to begin this week to determine how much Ohio History Connection must pay Moundbuilders Country Club to reclaim land currently ...

The Ohio History Connection, which owns the 2,000-year-old Octagon Earthworks in Newark in central Ohio, won a state Supreme Court decision a year and a half ago allowing it to reclaim a lease held by ...

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 ...