Around 1100 CE—a good 400 years before Spanish conquistadors would first glimpse the Grand Canyon—Ancestral Puebloans tended terrace farms along the banks of the Colorado River. In order to store their crops during the rainy season, when floods might destroy food stores, and to keep animals from eating the harvest, they created the Nankoweap Granaries high up in the canyon walls.
Ancient storage in the Grand Canyon
Today in History
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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The aftermath of a meteorite
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Gazing down on planet Earth
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My my, it s Syttende Mai
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An endless journey
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Saksun, Faroe Islands, Denmark
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Blooming sunflowers
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Keep your hands inside the ride at all times…
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Seattle, Washington
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St. Patrick s Day
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Fall for birding
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Great wildebeest migration at Mara River, Kenya
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Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
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Chittorgarh Fort, Rajasthan, India
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A throng of ice and spires
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International Archaeology Day
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Muskoxen in Dovre-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway
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Women s suffrage at 100
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Rosa Parks Day
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Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, Australia
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Salzburg, Austria
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Sounds of Bach come to Bath
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Ambassadors of the airwaves
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Here’s looking at you, teachers
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Art abounds at the Palais Garnier
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A peek behind the royal curtain
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Keyholes to the kingdom
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Arches National Park, Utah
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Fiddlehead fern fronds
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