When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A curious prehistoric site on a hilltop in northern Ohio may reflect the spiritual cosmology of ...

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IN THE beginning, there was light. Then, perhaps, a point of darkness. More dark spots appeared, the light circling them before falling in like water down a drain. These would have been our universe’s ...

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A hilltop site in Milan, Ohio, located on a bluff overlooking the Huron River, was likely a prehistoric ceremonial site for "Early Woodland" people 2,300 years ago. (Brian Redmond, Cleveland Museum of ...