Dwellings were taken from their original site in Southwest Colorado Just outside of Colorado Springs, the Manitou Cliff Dwellings have been welcoming tourists for over 100 years. In some ways, they ...

In this stunning diptyque, Trevor Paglen combines a geological photograph of ancient ruins with an astronomical view of a spacecraft in perpetual geosynchronous orbit. As indicated by the title, the ...

The discovery of the new plant-eating dinosaur was just below an ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) cliff-dwelling called Eagles Nest in the in the Comb Ridge area near Bluff, Utah. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

The Manitou Cliff Dwellings near Colorado Springs are one of many intricate cliff pueblo sites found in the southwest region of the United States. Believe it or not, the structures at this site aren’t ...

But for the occasional croak of a lone raven, the silence engulfing us was absolute, said David Roberts in National Geographic Traveler. High above us, on a ledge “defended by 60 feet of relentlessly ...

Tim Hovezak, an archaeologist at Mesa Verde National Park, points out some of the mysterious features of the Sun Temple, which overlooks the Cliff Palace and some of the park's other popular ...

Canyon de Chelly is a deceptively beautiful, somewhat mysterious spot near Chinle, in far northeast Arizona. The canyon is home to hundreds of well-preserved Anasazi ruins. It is also inhabited by a ...

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, Colo. – Seen from the air, the structure is a D-shape, perched on the lip of a mesa that overlooks the famous “Cliff Palace” dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park. Scientists ...