For Centuries, Indigenous People Lived in These Desert Canyons. Now, New Technology Reveals Extraordinary Details About This Sacred Site In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity

Here’s a link to the online version of the feature.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cany...

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Smithsonian Magazine: In the Canyon of the Ancients. Cover photo of the Tower House in Mummy Cave with the Milky Way visible in the sky. Photo credit Wayne Martine Belger www.waynemartinbelger.com

Smithsonian Magazine: In the Canyon of the Ancients inside spread title page. Black and white photo of the Tower House with harsh shadows creating geometric lines on the wall from the wooden beams embedded into the face of the Tower House. Photo credit Wayne Martine Belger www.waynemartinbelger.com

Congratulations to @waynemartinbelger.bsky.social for this stellar Smithsonian cover and 11 pages of beautiful photography of Canyon de Chelly and Mummy Cave. I even got a tiny photo credit. 😏 #smithsonianmagazine #mummycave