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 ...

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

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 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.

Tristram R. Kidder, of Washington University in St. Louis, will present "Poverty Point as a Radical, Cosmological Ritual Intervention." Abstract: Drawing almost exclusively from Western concepts of ...

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, ...