THE GREAT PYRAMIDS OF ST. LOUIS - A NEW BOOK BY MARK W. LEACH -COMING DECEMBER 2017

On July 4th, 1054, a star exploded adjacent to a crescent moon, creating the Crab Nebula. The event was recorded in Chinese writings, as well as Native American rock art. The supernova may have been the catalyst or "Big Bang" that inspired peoples from all across the mid-continent to pick up and move to the vast, fertile valley that sprawls out before present day St. Louis. Amassing by the tens of thousands, they took part in a newborn political/religious movement and spurred on a series of massive public construction projects: pyramids, plazas, and causeways. One pyramid stood 100 feet tall, with a footprint larger than the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan in Mexico and the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. Learn all about this amazing civilization from interviews with top experts such as Timothy R. Pauketat, Thomas E. Emerson, William Iseminger, John E. Kelly, William F. Romain, Carol Diaz-Granados, and others. "See" the past via key pyramid site drawings by Glenn Baker. All profits will go to the Mound City Archaeological Society to help fund their ongoing series of monthly public lectures. Lecture and book signing at 7:00 PM, December 5, 2017 at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri.