Canyon de Chelly, May 2005

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Sunset at Tsegi Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


 Sunset at Tsegi Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


 Sunrise at Tsegi Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


 Sunrise at Tsegi Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


 Sunrise at Junction Overlook in Canyon de Chelly, May 2005


Suncrise at Junction Overlook in Canyon de Chelly, May 2005


 Suncrise at Junction Overlook in Canyon de Chelly, May 2005


 Sunset at Spyder Rock Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


 Sunset at Spyder Rock Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


 Sunset at Spyder Rock Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


Sunset at Spyder Rock Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


 Mummy Cave Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


 The steep walls of Canyon de Chelly preserve ancient ruins of the once thriving Anasazi people who occupied the southern portion of Utah for about 1200 years ending in 1200 AD. Then they left. No one is really sure why, perhaps a drought forced them from their homes. Navajo people settled on the Colorado plateau much later and are unrelated to the Anasazi. In the Navajo language, Anasazi means "ancient ones who are not our people." This site shown in the picture was inhabited for about a thousand years beginning in 300 AD. The cliff walls are about 700 feet at this site. Discovery of two preserved mummies in an 1880 archeological expedition led to call this site “mummy cave ruins.” The traditional Navajo name for the ruin is “house under the rock.”


 The steep walls of Canyon de Chelly preserve ancient ruins of the once thriving Anasazi people who occupied the southern portion of Utah for about 1200 years ending in 1200 AD. Then they left. No one is really sure why, perhaps a drought forced them from their homes. Navajo people settled on the Colorado plateau much later and are unrelated to the Anasazi. In the Navajo language, Anasazi means "ancient ones who are not our people." This site shown in the picture was inhabited for about a thousand years beginning in 300 AD. The cliff walls are about 700 feet at this site. Discovery of two preserved mummies in an 1880 archeological expedition led to call this site “mummy cave ruins.” The traditional Navajo name for the ruin is “house under the rock.”


 Mummy Cave Overlook in Canyon de Chelly


White House Overlook at Canyon de Chelly.


 White House Overlook at Canyon de Chelly.


 Mummy Cave Overlook in Canyon de Chelly