Beneath Louisiana Lies a Lost World Older Than the Pyramid

Long before the pyramids of Egypt rose from the desert sands, a mysterious and advanced society was already thriving in the swamps and lowlands of the American South, leaving behind a lost world Louisiana has only recently begun to understand. This ancient Louisiana history centers on massive earthworks and ceremonial mounds that reveal a level of sophistication few people expect to find in prehistoric Louisiana, forcing historians and archaeologists to rethink what they thought they knew about early civilization in North America.