Giant is Excavated from Henry County, Indiana Burial Mounds

Giant is  Excavated from Henry County, Indiana Burial Mounds

One of the largest Hopewell Sioux burial mounds near New Castle, Indiana was obliterated by Ball State University archaeologists. The cremated remains are within the dark soil that is being shoveled into wheelbarrows.
Large skeletons were reported in many of the burial mounds within the county.

Biographical Memoirs of Henry County Indiana, 1902 

     William H. Albright remained upon the home farm during his youth and attained a fair education in the common schools of his neighborhood. He has taken much interest in the investigation of the noted mounds, one which he opened containing the skeleton of a giant human being. The lower jaw was large enough to fit over ‘an ordinary man’s head, while the other bones were proportionate in size. The skull was a half inch in thickness and under it were found twelve flint arrowheads. Mare giants uncovered in Indiana are found here https://nephilimgiantsinnorthamerica.blogspot.com/2020/07/indianas-ancient-giant-race.html

Equinox Solar Alignment of the Earthworks at the Henry County, Henge Complex

Equinox Solar Alignment of the Earthworks at the Henry County, Henge Complex

The large burial mound that was surrounded by a ditch and earthwork has nearly been obliterated Ball State archaeologists.  Standing in the center of where the mound once was and looking west on the sunset of the Equinox sunset the sun aligns with mound #1.

The map shows mound #4 to the extreme right and mound #1 to the extreme left. 

In Search of the Ancient Rock River Canal

In Search of the Ancient Rock River Canal

    One of the mysteries that I am currently pursuing is the historical accounts of ancient canals that have been described east and along the Mississippi River. Why canals? Canals, like roads, were constructed to move goods and services. What were they moving?

   The only plausible commodity that would necessitate a canal would be copper that was being mined north, in the Lake Superior region. Canals along the Mississippi would indicate that large amounts of copper were being sent down to the Gulf of Mexico. The only plausible builders were the Amorite metal traders with origins in the eastern Mediterranean.

   The following historical accounts describe ancient canals along the tributaries of the Mississippi River. The fact that a ship passed through one of the canals is evidence that these canals were for commerce and not for irrigation.

History of Mifflin County Illinois, 1887

     On the banks of Green River, in Henry County in Illinois, are traces of an ancient city, which was once the abode of a commercial people, and points to a time when the Rock River was a navigable stream of some commercial importance. A canal connected these two rivers some three miles above the junction. This canal is about a mile and a half long and is perfectly straight for about one-fourth of a mile from the Green River end; it is then relieved by a perfectly easy curve, reaching the Rock River at a bend, and showing that the engineering was done in a masterly manner. The soil is a very fine texture, mixed with a ferruginous mineral deposit; hence its firmness, and the reason of it withstanding the washings of rains, for this great lapse of time. About twelve miles back and above this canal is another partly natural and partly artificial connecting Rock and Mississippi Rivers. This is so well preserved that about twelve years ago the "Serling" a small Rock River steamer, passed through it into the Mississippi river. These works are as old as the mountains of Egypt, and were in all probability built by a contemporaneous people.