EPISODE · Apr 30, 2026 · 1H 17M
Cahokia — America's Buried Capital
from Vanished Worlds · host Vanished Worlds
A man was buried on twenty thousand shells arranged in the shape of a bird. He was the center of a forgotten civilization that once held more people than medieval London — and vanished without a war, a plague, or a name anyone remembered. Ninety minutes of ancient history, told for sleep. No answers. Only what the ground remembers.
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A man was buried on twenty thousand shells arranged in the shape of a bird. He was the center of a forgotten civilization that once held more people than medieval London — and vanished without a war, a plague, or a name anyone remembered. Ninety minutes of ancient history, told for sleep. No answers. Only what the ground remembers.
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Cahokia — America's Buried Capital
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