Archaeology Gallery

Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, 1200s

Restoration of Pueblo Bonito, Ancestral Puebloan/Anasazi site in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, as it looked about 1250 AD.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Saul's Mound, 72 feet high, one of the Pinson Mounds, the largest Middle Woodland (c.1-500 A.D.) mound group in the U.S. Tennessee.
Digital photograph

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Trapezoidal doorway leading to Inca Temple of the Sun at Ingapirca in the Andes Mountains, Ecuador.
Digital photograph

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