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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

FARMINGTON — Aztec Ruins National Monument eliminated its $5 entrance fee at the beginning of May, according to a press release from the national monument. The announcement came after staff conducted ...

Colorado historian Fred Blackburn is leading the team conducting the survey. He said the team has surveyed nine rooms and the Visitors Center and has 11 rooms to go. He anticipates it will be several ...