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The Newark Earthworks in Newark and Heath, Ohio, consist of three sections of preserved earthworks: the Great Circle Earthworks, the Octagon Earthworks, and the Wright Earthworks.
Visit Newark Earthworks, an architectural wonder of ancient America, the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world.
The Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world. Honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, the entire Newark Earthworks originally encompassed more than four square miles.
Sep 19, 2023 · The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks nomination included the Octagon Earthworks in Newark and the Great Circle in Newark and Heath as part of eight large earthen enclosures built by ancient...
The Largest Geometric Earthwork Complex in the World. ABOUT THE SITE. Seventeen centuries ago, Newark, Ohio, was a major center for a remarkable ancient culture. Here, American Indians built the largest geometric earthwork complex in the world. Enormous enclosures connected by walled roadways were spread across more than four square miles.
Nov 15, 2021 · Now standing as the best preserved and largest examples of Hopewell geometric earthworks anywhere, the Newark Earthworks once encompassed more than four square miles of land maintained by the Hopewell Era.
The Newark Earthworks were constructed between 100 B.C. and A.D. 500 by a people we know today as the Hopewell Culture. Part temple, part astronomical observatory, and part cemetery, this...
Since 2005, the Newark Earthworks Center has successfully initiated strategies to inform Ohio citizens about brilliant ancient Indigenous earthen architecture and contemporary American issues.
Aug 7, 2009 · The Newark Earthworks comprise the largest complex of geometric earthworks in the world. It originally extended across more than 4 ½ square miles and included a square enclosure that could have held the Great Pyramid of Egypt, an Octagon in which you could fit four Roman Colosseums, and a Great Circle that held the Ohio State Fair in 1854.
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks is a series of eight monumental earthen enclosure complexes built between 2,000 and 1,600 years ago along the central tributaries of the Ohio River in east-central North America.
