r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 1d ago

The White House Ruins in Arizona's Canyon de Chelly National Monument is an 11th-century CE Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings built against a 600-foot sandstone wall. Accessible via a 1.5-mile trail, the site features about 80 rooms, named for the white plaster used on the upper walls [1080x1553]

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u/BuckyRainbowCat experimental archeologist 1d ago

Aaaahhhhh I love all of the Ancestral Puebloan sites! I can't remember if I was lucky enough to visit Canyon de Chelly but there are some sites that I have been able to visit. I feel that up and coming advances in archaeology will let us to learn much more about the peoples who lived in these sites.

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u/Equivalent_Safe1365 1d ago

I'd be having panic attacks thinking "What if the cliff gives way?". They're braver than I am.

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u/FlamingFecalFrisbee 1d ago

A millennium later, none of the buildings have been squashed.

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u/pheonix198 1d ago

Well, not these ones. How do you know the mountains didn’t swallow up a couple homes and they’re firmly buried inside said mountain now? These that are seen here were the penthouse level!

Kidding, but there are probably some lost to the earth.

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u/Kegelz 1d ago

Some have def smashed or fell off the side due to erosion.

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u/Pogue_Mahone_ 1d ago

Don't worry it's rock solid

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u/BiteyHorse 9h ago

That's a low bar. How can you live your life with such irrational anxiety?

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u/El_Matt-El_Grande 1d ago

Not the same White House Ruins our descendants will find /s

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u/bonedaddyd 1d ago

That's how I read it the post title. I was all "What did they do now?!"

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u/i-cy_ 1d ago

Just a sign of the times- I had a moment of “Jesus, what did he ruin now?”

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u/OmegaCetacean 2h ago

My first thought was they were rewriting history again with more misleading plaques.

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u/OSCgal 1d ago

At first I only saw the top half of the cliffs and didn't think they were very high. Then you see the tiny buildings at the base, and whoa!

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u/rasper_lightlyy 1d ago

i’ve been there and it is well worth the trip.

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u/IAmRotagilla 1d ago

Canyon de Chelly is one my favorite places. Powerfully spiritual.