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Picture of Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace
Picture of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park


Peering carefully over the edge of a steep desert canyon, you see them: buildings as high as many in use today, clinging to or chiseled out of the rock walls below. At first you see only broken lines of stone, circular amphitheater-like enclosures and wide passageways—then, in an instant, all before you transforms. Suddenly there are people, brightly clad, busy and contented, bustling along within what are clearly streets, homes, and gathering places. These canyons are not just precipitous faces of sandy rock; they are a portal to human history. Read More »

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