Newark Earthworks

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Built by indigenous people thousands of years ago, the Newark Earthworks are part cathedral, part cemetery, and part astronomical observatory. But today, this ancient ceremonial site is part of a golf course in Ohio. Read Cedric Rose’s article: https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/will-ohios-earthworks-become-a-world-heritage-site/ Learn more about the Newark Earthworks: http://worldheritageohio.org

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0:00.0	Mount Builder's Country Club is a golf course in Newark, Ohio, about 45 minutes east
0:11.6	of Columbus.
0:13.3	As far as golf courses go, this one is pretty straightforward, except for one thing.
0:20.2	All around the course, there are these large mounds, six feet tall.
0:26.6	It's hard to tell what's going on with them from the ground, but if you were looking
0:30.6	down at them from the sky, you would see geometric perfection.
0:37.0	One mound is a perfect circle, and another is a gigantic octagon.
0:42.6	They run across 11 of the course's 18 holes.
0:46.6	The Mount Builder's Country Club was built here in 1910, but these mounds were built here
0:52.4	long before that.
0:54.4	There are line segments in a work of art built from the earth by an indigenous society
1:00.4	dating back to 100 BC.
1:03.8	These earthworks are part cathedral, part cemetery, and part astronomical observatory.
1:12.5	This place that may have been for purification now is a putting green.
1:21.7	I'm Sarah Wyman, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible
1:28.4	and wondrous places.
1:30.1	Today, we're heading to Newark, Ohio, to experience a mind-blowing example of human genius
1:37.4	and creativity that survived for thousands of years.
1:42.1	The story of the people who built it, and the people working to preserve it, after this.
1:51.7	It's 300 AD.
2:13.2	The mounds have already been here for at least 100 years.
2:17.3	There are no settlers here.
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