WEST CARROLL PARISH — U.S. National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis didn't hesitate when asked about the significance of Poverty Point's inclusion as a World Heritage Site. "This changes ...

We got to Poverty Point Reservoir State Park in Delhi — almost Mississippi — during the hottest time of the day. Lucky for us the park is flush with water and plenty of ways to stay cool this summer.

New discoveries by a ULM researcher at Poverty Point World Heritage Site are helping bring a deeper understanding about "the first truly monumental earthen site north of Mexico." Poverty Point, one of ...

WASHINGTON —Louisiana’s Poverty Point State Historic Site and its ancient mounds in West Carroll Parish are officially vying for a spot on the World Heritage List that includes such famous sites as ...

In the northeast corner of Louisiana, history and recreation make for a great weekend getaway. Visit a UNESCO World Heritage Site, play a round of golf, and watch a beautiful sunset from the porch of ...

Mound A at Poverty Point World Heritage Site is the largest mound at the site. Located just west of the enclosure of ridges, mound A, which stands more than 70-feet high and measures 640-feet along ...

DELHI, La. – A United Nations agency has named Poverty Point State Historic Site in Louisiana as a World Heritage site. The U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization granted the designation ...

Polished stone tools, such as these plummets, used as weights for fishing nets, were made circa 1500 B.C. at Poverty Point. (NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archives) For summer vacation two years ago, ...

Aerial view of Mound A at the Poverty Point site. Credit: Jennifer R. Trotter / Wikimedia Commons About 3,500 years ago, in a bend of the Mississippi River in what is now northeastern Louisiana, ...

An LSU physicist wants to play a little Indiana Jones on the university’s hi-tech machinery. Adjunct professor Franz-Josef Hormes wants to turn LSU's CAMD synchrotron, normally used for physics ...

Tristram R. Kidder, of Washington University in St. Louis, will present "Poverty Point as a Radical, Cosmological Ritual Intervention." Abstract: Drawing almost exclusively from Western concepts of ...