200-Foot, Pre-Columbian Scorpion Mound Found In Mexico
Built using stones and soil sometime between 600 C.E. and 1100 C.E., this enormous effigy was likely used to track the Sun’s path throughout the year. J. Neely et al.The effigy mound was built in the shape of a scorpion, its stinger and claws aligned with the sunrise and sunsets on the solstices. A new study suggests that a giant, scorpion-shaped mound built hundreds of years ago in Mexico may…

















