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 ...

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 ...

It was the evening after the winter solstice at Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwest New Mexico, near the town of Aztec. Although we were a day late per the solar calendar, the park service ...

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 ...

Aztec Ruins National Monument is hosting a Winter Solstice Observation at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22. Visitors must arrive to the visitor center by 4:30 p.m. and will be led by rangers and volunteers ...

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 ...

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. (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 ...

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.