Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near-vertical cliff on the Parajito ...

Luminarias light Spruce Tree House, an ancient dwelling of the Anasazi people and the third largest cliff dwelling in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. From Cortez, take US 160 east for eight ...

Around A.D. 1250, seeking refuge from some unknown threat, the Anasazi migrated from open villages to nearly inaccessible dwellings. A generation later, they moved again. Douglas Merriam In 1874 ...

All around the base of the cliff, we could see remains of pit houses. From there, a trail took us to the top of a mesa above these dwellings to what must have been a village. Pit houses dotted ...

The film explores the history and culture of Southwestern Native Americans, focusing on the Hohokam and Anasazi tribes. It highlights their adaptation to the arid environment, agricultural ...

It would be another year before the discovery of Cliff Palace ... he didn't find a single Anasazi. But he did find remarkable ruins — 12-foot-high granaries, dwellings built in the nether ...