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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Spring comes to the Diablo foothills
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To Roswell, and beyond!
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Up, up, and away for Hot Air Balloon Day
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Gateway to America
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Día de los Muertos celebrations in Mexico
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Stari Most in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The Spirit of Harlem by Louis Delsarte
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Rocky mountain pi
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A polar bear near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
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Indigenous Peoples Day
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Snow aglow in central Japan
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Milford Sound/Piopiotahi rainforest in New Zealand
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In celebration of cats
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Make your list and check it twice
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Illuminating Annecy
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Atop the roof of Africa
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Entoloma hochstetteri mushroom at Lake Mahinapua, New Zealand
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Hohenzollern Castle near Stuttgart, Germany
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Wartburg Castle overlooking Thuringian Forest in Germany
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Red skies at Ruby Beach
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Happy Mothers Day!
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Let the games (finally) begin!
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Beavers Bend
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Kirkjufell, Iceland
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It s Tolkien Reading Day
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National Hammock Day
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Did they forget to fly south?
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World Rainforest Day
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Feelin groovy on Record Store Day
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World Lizard Day