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Oct 4, 2026
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Unveiling the Mammoth Cave Mystery: Why Native Americans Journeyed 12 Miles Underground for Centuries
Oct 4 · 1 Mention
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And in a cave in northern Alabama, it has one.
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59:05
Manitou Cave contains inscriptions written on its walls in the Cherokee syllabary, the writing system developed nearby by Sequoyah in the 1820s.
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A team of Cherokee scholars working alongside archaeologists has read them.
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They are first-person accounts, left by Cherokee people, of what they were doing deep inside that cave.
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