WHEN YOU GO TO MESA VERDE I saw a little city of stone asleep. That village sat looking down into the canyon with the calmness of eternity . . . preserved in the dry air and almost perpetual sunlig… ...

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — A wildfire that had already burned 3,500 acres made a 3-mile run overnight, spreading into nearby land on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation. The park remained ...

Peabody believed that only as a national park could Mesa Verde be properly saved for future generations. On June 29, 1906, President Roosevelt signed the law creating Mesa Verde National Park.

Party's on for Mesa Verde. Skip to content. All Sections. ... reached an important benchmark April 20 with the 24 modern tribes that claim cultural affiliation to the ancient Indians of Mesa Verde.

When Mesa Verde National Park was established in 1906, ... the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park reminds American citizens and other guests that they are on Indian land.” Mesa Verde has strived to do ...

In December 1888, Colorado cowboys discovered a remarkable archaeological site at Mesa Verde, revealing a silent city of stone built by a peaceful Indian civilization centuries before Columbus.

Researchers say they have found a new clue into the mysterious exodus of ancient cliff-dwelling people from the Mesa Verde area of Colorado more than 700 years ago: DNA from the bones of domesticat… ...

Andrew Gumbel explores Mesa Verde, one of the most beautiful national parks in the United States.

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places, and looters took away most of the pottery and baskets a century ago. But as you explore the southwestern Colorado national park, it's ...

July 23 -- A fire burning out of control in Mesa Verde National Park has unearthed hidden ancient Indian artifacts, complicating firefighters’ task of putting out the blaze before it spreads to ...

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m.