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Pueblo Bonito: photograph

PhotographCC BY 3.0Built in stages from the mid-800s to the early 1100s; main episodes 1047 to 1049 and 1077 to 1082Copy of Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Bonito: photograph
Pueblo Bonito: photograph

About 800 rooms on about 3 acres, with two great kivas and more than thirty smaller kivas. Part of the building was crushed by the fall of Threatening Rock in January 1941. Its excavation records are divided between the American Museum of Natural History (Hyde Exploring Expedition) and the Smithsonian (Judd); the Chaco Research Archive brings many of them together.

MARELBU, 1047. CC BY 3.0

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PhotographMARELBU · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY 3.01 step from the original

Where it was made

AlbuquerqueSt. GeorgeSanta FeFlagstaffFarmingtonGallupDurango1Pueblo Bonito200 kmAlbuquerquePuebloSt. GeorgeSanta Fe1200 km
Pueblo Bonito · Great house

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Pueblo Bonito: photograph [Copy CPY0D9KW0E47G76]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/CPY0D9KW0E47G76
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