Archaeologists believe that it's over 2,000 years old.

It's a mound that stands over 60 feet tall, with a base that's almost as wide as a football

field.

Folks who built it had to move something like 60,000 tons of dirt and rock to make it

happen.

An M-mound is standing right in the middle of a town in West Virginia, a town called

Moundsville.

Creative, I know.

It's a burial mound, constructed by the pre-Columbian culture known as the Adina, and one

of the many they left scattered about the Midwest.

And while it's been studied for its physical qualities, such as the items and remains hidden

inside.

It's the reason for the mound's existence that has been discussed the most.

Some believe that it's an example of what's known as an Axis Mundi, a place that's considered

to be a cosmic access point, or the center of the world.

It's an idea found in countless cultures around the globe, from Iggdrazil in Norse mythology

and Hebrew Garden of Eden, to Mount Olympus and the Pyramids of Teotihuacan.

Everywhere people live throughout history, they have treated certain places as sacred and

different.

The Axis Mundi is thought to be a place where heaven and earth connect, where the world

beyond is pressed right up against our own, like two sheets of paper that have been pinched

together.

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