Today, Poverty Point National Monument is open for visitors daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, with exception for certain holidays.

Poverty Point World Heritage Site is located at 6859 LA−577, Pioneer and is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Entrance is $4 per person but is free to seniors ages 62 and over, and free to kids ages ...

Poverty Point World Heritage Site manager Mark Brink says that the site is clearly enough a ceremonial space, but having been abandoned around 1100 B.C., no one knows much more than that.

A day to discover Capitol Park Museum, 660 N. Fourth St., will host Discovery Day: Poverty Point from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, with programming centered on Poverty Point’s unusual carvings.

Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana, site of one of history’s great mysteries, is a bit off the beaten track. But more than 3,000 years ago it was a happening place, ...