Hundreds of thousands of visitors make their way to Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. Enjoy ancient cliff dwellings at ...

Keet Seel lies within Navajo National Monument, accessed via Highway 564 near Shonto, Arizona (86054). Visitors must complete ...

In December 1888, Colorado cowboys discovered a remarkable archaeological site at Mesa Verde, revealing a silent city of stone built by a peaceful Indian civilization centuries before Columbus.

The iconic cliff dwellings that gain the most attention at Mesa Verde ... With its spectacular, sheer-walled canyons and numerous Ancestral Puebloan dwellings nestled at the base of towering cliffs or ...

The well-preserved cliff dwelling marks the southeastern edge of Bears Ears National Monument’s Shash Jaa Unit. Ancestral ...

a 150-room cliff dwelling built by ancestral Puebloans who exploited alcoves that had been formed over thousands of years by water seeping into porous sandstone and cracking it apart. Dry air ...

a well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwelling. After spending at least a day in Mesa Verde, continue north toward the Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum, where you’ll learn ...

one of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. About 10 feet below the rim, he peered into a hole with a bolt inside, evidence of a 1960s-era attempt to ...

Archaeologists call them the Ancestral Puebloan people. The communities they built are Betatakin, set in the alcove of a magnificent sandstone arch; Keet Seel, the largest cliff dwelling in ...