Shortly after being discovered in the 1870s, the ruins and artifacts around what is now Mesa Verde National Park were subject to looting. This photo of Cliff Palace was taken in 1891 by Gustaf ...

He was also curious about why many Mesa Verde artifacts now reside in the National Museum of Finland. It was there that he learned about Nordenskiold, but thought little about him for more than a ...

Finland has agreed to return Native American ancestral remains and artifacts that were taken more than a century ago from what is now Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.

Inside, they found stone tools, pottery, and other artifacts in rooms that had been uninhabited for some 600 years. Why the Mesa Verde people eventually left their homes may never be known.

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — Vandals destroyed archaeological artifacts to write graffiti on the side of a sandstone cliff in Mesa Verde National Park recently. Park officials posted ...

(CBS/AP)-- On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced the repatriation of Native American remains and artifacts taken from Colorado 130 years ago.A Swedish researcher unearthed the remains of ...

The brothers gathered artifacts as carefully as they could, ... Mesa Verde was a new kind of national park, meant to celebrate not majestic scenery, but a prehistoric culture and its people.

Mesa Verde artifacts ended up in Sweden. The first time Mesa Verde appears in European records is 1776, when Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Dominguez camped along the Mancos ...

June 3, 2014 Magazine: Mesa Verde National Park one of America’s Top 10 hidden gems Park officials asked visitors to be aware of destructive acts and report such activities to a park ranger as ...