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Aztec Ruins National Monument

Aztec, NM

A remarkably intact ancestral Pueblo great house includes original roofs, T-shaped doorways and a reconstructed Great Kiva. Despite the modern name 'Aztec,' the site was built by ancestral Pueblo peoples, not the Aztec civilization of Mexico.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/azru/

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