Fort Ancient

It's been one year since Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Visitation locally at Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve is seeing an increase.

Every December, on the shortest day of the year as fall officially gives way to winter, a feat of ancient astronomy and mathematics is on display in the Southwestern Ohio community of Oregonia.

Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are the 25th site in the United States — and the first in Ohio — added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The USA's bid to have Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage sites is progressing. The bid is in the formal review process. Recently, a reviewer from the International Council on Monuments and Sites visited Ohio for a tour.

A team of reviewers is expected in Ohio this month to review the United States' proposal to bestow World Heritage status to Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. The bid is moving forward despite disruptions to the process that led to no sites being added to the World Heritage List this summer.

The USA has formally submitted its bid to the UNESCO committee responsible for determining World Heritage Site status. That vote and announcement is expected in July of 2023.

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