Lasers have revealed a 1,000-year-old sacred road near Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. Researchers say the road was part of an Indigenous ritual landscape, serving as a path between natural springs and ...

Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland withdrew land surrounding Chaco Canyon in 2023, citing its historical and environmental importance. Navajo leaders say they weren't properly consulted and now ...

Look west and see the sun set. Look east, the full moon rises. Seeing this phenomenon is impressive, but not unique, according to the Journal's astronomy expert, Kevin McKeown. In April, September, ...

Chaco Canyon National Historical Park is nestled deep in the Navajo Nation of modern-day New Mexico. Surrounded by desert and only accessible by unpaved roads, it usually receives fewer than 5000 ...

A six-kilometer-long Chaco Culture road lines up, Stonehenge-like, with the winter solstice. Other roads end at shrines in the middle of a desert.

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in an elaborate pattern that mirrors the yearly cycle of the sun and the 19-year cycle of the moon.

The Ancestral Puebloans, along with other tribal groups, occupied this land and inhabited sites such as Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly. Today, the region is home to the descendants of ...