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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Flag Day
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Groundhog Day
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A memorial in Germany
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Notes from an underground lake
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Silver-studded blue butterflies
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Entoloma hochstetteri mushroom at Lake Mahinapua, New Zealand
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1934 Labor Day parade, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Weaverbird nests at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve
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Mysterious prairie mounds abound
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Juneteenth
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It’s Draw a Bird Day
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Sounds of Bach come to Bath
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Santo Antão Island in the Republic of Cabo Verde
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Indigenous Peoples Day
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Puma in Patagonia
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Museum Night in Berlin
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International Day of Human Space Flight
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Asteroid Day
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Take a hike near Lovers Lane
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World Water Day
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Wartburg Castle overlooking Thuringian Forest in Germany
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Oktoberfest
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Astronomy Day
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Congratulations, 2019 Nobel Prize laureates!
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Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland
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Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
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Schönbrunn Palace Park, Vienna, Austria
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Lake Bled, Slovenia
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Too awesome to be a planet
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Cheetah mother and cub