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They Found 270 Bodies Under This Mound @widelenz00

In the ruins of America’s forgotten ancient city, Cahokia, archaeologists unearthed a gruesome secret.
It’s called Mound 72. Inside, they found the tomb of a powerful leader, laid on a magnificent cape made of twenty thousand seashell beads.
But he was not alone.

Buried around him were over 270 other people, in what appears to be a mass human sacrifice.
In one pit, the bodies of more than 50 young women were found, neatly stacked. In another, four men were discovered, missing their heads and hands.

This was a society capable of immense ritual violence, a dark side to the city's power. A power structure built on such foundations is inherently unstable. Was this the key to why a city of tens of thousands of people simply vanished?


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00:00The Dark Secret of Mound 72
00:03In the ruins of America's forgotten ancient city, Cahokia,
00:07archaeologists unearthed a gruesome secret.
00:10It's called Mound 72.
00:12Inside, they found the tomb of a powerful leader,
00:15laid on a magnificent cape made of 20,000 seashell beads.
00:20But he was not alone.
00:22Buried around him were over 270 other people
00:25in what appears to be a mass human sacrifice.
00:28In one pit, the bodies of more than 50 young women
00:31were found neatly stacked.
00:33In another, four men were discovered,
00:35missing their heads and hands.
00:37This was a society capable of immense ritual violence,
00:41a dark side to the city's power.
00:43A power structure built on such foundations
00:45is inherently unstable.
00:47Was this the key to why a city of tens of thousands of people
00:50simply vanished?
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They Found 270 Bodies Under This Mound

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