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Across the Ohio Valley, thousands of ancient earthworks once dominated the landscape. Enormous burial mounds, geometric enclosures, mysterious ceremonial sites and the extraordinary Serpent Mound were constructed by peoples whose knowledge of astronomy, mathematics and sacred geography continues to raise questions about ancient North America.

But could these monuments preserve the memory of something far older?

In this episode, we investigate the controversial accounts of giant skeletons reportedly unearthed by early American settlers, the mysterious Allegheny people described in historical traditions, and the possibility that the Adena inherited knowledge from an earlier civilization.

Drawing on Star Mounds: Legacy of a Native American Mystery, we venture into a forgotten world of celestial alignments, ancient temples, sacred earth energies and traditions of a vanished golden age. Were the great mound complexes designed to mirror the stars? Did their builders possess knowledge of terrestrial magnetism and cosmic forces? And what happened to the extraordinary skeletal discoveries described in nineteenth-century accounts?

From the ancient earthworks of Ohio to stories of the Nephilim, Atlantis and the lost wisdom of the gods, we explore the boundary between archaeology, Native American traditions and alternative interpretations of humanity's distant past.

Were America's ancient mounds simply ceremonial monuments, or do they preserve clues to a forgotten chapter of human civilization?

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