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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The 80th anniversary of D-Day
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Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy
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Siblings Day
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In Apia Harbor for Samoan Independence Day
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Toledo, Spain
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Nature Photography Day
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World Wildlife Day
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Bavljenac Island
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Looking back on 150 years of rail travel
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Manatees rebound
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Ceremony Hall at Sweden s Icehotel
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Endangered Species Day
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The ‘Night of Nights’
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Presidents Day
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Jan van Eyckplein in Bruges, Belgium
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Overseas Highway, Florida Keys
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Flowers by the sea
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National Fossil Day
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Manatee Appreciation Day
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Merry Christmas!
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‘Hello’ from zero degrees longitude
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Celebrating migrations
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Tree of many colors
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Islands that turned the tide
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Celebrate International Women’s Day
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Belted Galloway cows
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Looking back at Yellowstone, 30 years after the fires
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Daylight saving time begins
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Frost on autumn leaves
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Remembering Jimmy Carter
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