We removed every house in this Ohio town

Heath, Ohio, from the air, then with every house and tree taken away. The bare-earth picture comes from the U.S. Geological Survey's lidar: lasers flown over Ohio that measure the ground itself. In the middle is the Great Circle, nearly 1,200 feet across, with walls and a ditch 8 to 13 feet high and deep. The Hopewell built it about 2,000 years ago, one basket of earth at a time. In 2023 it became part of Ohio's first World Heritage Site.

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Sources:
- Great Circle: Ohio History Connection, hopewellearthworks.org (nearly 1,200 ft; walls and ditch 8 to 13 ft)
- Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, built about A.D. 1 to 400, inscribed on the World Heritage List September 2023 (National Park Service; UNESCO)