Topic: Monks Mound

An 1869 article describes the discovery of a sophisticated tunnel system beneath the Mississippi River during bridge construction. The report claims builders found masonry, carriage wheel tracks, and runic inscriptions dating back to the founding of the Assyrian Empire. These passages reportedly connect to Monks Mound and a larger nine-mile chain of mounds, suggesting a vast subterranean highway system in ancient America.

Cahokia, located near modern-day St. Louis, was a massive Mississippian city that housed up to 50,000 people at its peak around 1200 AD. The site features Monk's Mound, a 100-foot-tall structure covering 13 acres, making it larger at its base than the Great Pyramid of Giza. This urban center was part of a vast network of mound-building cultures that stretched across the American Southeast.