Chaco Culture National Park and the Aztec Ruins National Monument on Saturday hosted winter solstice events on Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year. Chaco opened to the first 100 visitors to arrive ...

More than 100 visitors gathered to witness how ancestral Pueblo people tracked seasons through sunlight alignments at this ...

A landscape restoration project is underway at Aztec Ruins National Monument that will see native vegetation planted and nurtured as part of an effort to protect the park’s cultural resources.

AZTEC (AP) – Retired archaeologist Jeff Wharton used maps to explain the size of Aztec North, an unexcavated great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument, during a guided tour of a part of the park ...

AZTEC, N.M. – Aztec Ruins National Monument is giving visitors a chance to immerse themselves in an unexcavated ancient Pueblo structure. “You’re going to see what archeologists would have saw when ...

National Park Service officials have announced a change in the hours of operation at Aztec Ruins National monument this weekend. According to a news release from the agency, the grounds at the park ...

FARMINGTON — Aztec Ruins National Monument may be the subject of a centennial celebration this year marking its establishment in 1923, but the 318-acre, ancestral Puebloan site still possesses the ...

AZTEC, N.M. (AP) — Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwestern New Mexico’s San Juan County is celebrating its 90th birthday as part of the national park system. The site’s designation as a monument ...

BACK THOUSANDS. YES THOUSANDS OF YEARS. TUCKED AWAY IN NORTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO SITS A FOUNDATION FOR LTCUURES BOTH PAST AND PRESENT WE ARE AT AN ANCESTRAL PUEBLO ...

The inscriptions are essentially antique graffiti rendered with a lead pencil, quill pen, knife or other carving tool. Each inscription was photographed, measured, documented and interpreted.