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Montezuma Castle Monument

From their info: Montezuma Castle is one of a number of well-preserved ancient dwellings in north central Arizona, It is probably the most spectacular; an imposing 20 room, 5-story structure built into a recess in a white limestone cliff about 70 feet above the ground. When first (re)discovered the ruins were thought to be Aztec in origin, hence the name bestowed on them by early explorers, but they are now known to belong to the Sinagua Indian peoples who farmed the surrounding land between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, before abandoning the area

Posted by Vanabout 17:00 Archived in USA

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