The largest pyramid in North America is a hill you’ve driven past. Monks Mound in southern Illinois covers more ground at its base than the Great Pyramid of Giza. There were no wheels on this continent. No carts, no oxen. Every ounce of it was carried up by hand in a basket, about fifteen million trips. A hundred and twenty mounds stood around it, in a city six square miles wide. In 1150, more people lived there than in London. No European ever saw it. It was empty a century before Columbus. Then settlers decided Native people couldn’t have built it and that’s what got taught in schools for the next hundred years. There is a country buried underneath this one. And you’re standing on it right now.
S.T.E.M. Researcher & Teacher | Healer -
Tony is the Spiritual Son to the beloved Dr. Delbert Blair.
At age 11 he began to study plant life and their healing mechanisms as it bothered him deeply to see so many older family members needlessly sick. Throughout the years he has been sharing what he knows so that others may live a life full of abundance while exploring its mysteries.
Latest posts by Tony Vortex (see all)
- Man Mound (Baraboo, Wisconsin) Ep: 012 | The Buried Country - October 3, 2026
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- Craig Mound (Spiro, Oklahoma) Ep: 010 | The Buried Country - September 26, 2026
- Grand Village of the Natchez (Natchez, Mississippi) Ep: 009 | The Buried Country - September 24, 2026
- The Pueblo Bonito Mounds (San Juan County, New Mexico) Ep: 008 | The Buried Country - September 20, 2026