“This is our ancestral homeland,” said Revis. “These are ancestral mounds and our people are buried here.” Prior to the Muscogee Creek tribe being exiled to Oklahoma in the 1830s, they ...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...

but its human occupation dates back at least 17,000 years—when the original Mississippian people arrived after the last Ice Age and occupied the area for millenia. The mounds they built ...