The best-preserved examples of the stone and adobe dwellings are in National Parks ( USA ), such as Chaco Canyon or Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Hovenweep National Monument, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

Aztec Ruins National Monument

* Aztec Ruins National Monument

The Aztec Ruins National Monument stands close to the city.

File: Aztec ruins buildings in 2011. jpg | Aztec Ruins National Monument is a popular attraction near Aztec.

Other nearby attractions include the Aztec Ruins, about 15 miles to the north in the town of Aztec, and the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, approximately 50 miles to the south.

The area that is now Farmington was settled by the Anasazi in the 7th Century with ruins now visible at nearby Salmon Ruins and in Aztec Ruins.

The Aztec Ruins National Monument and the Salmon Ruins are ancient dwellings located just to the northeast and the east of Farmington.

In New Mexico there is also the Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Capulin Volcano National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, El Malpais National Monument, El Morro National Monument, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, Pecos National Historical Park, Petroglyph National Monument, and the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

Great Kiva excavated in 1921 by Earl Morris and reconstructed by him 13 years later, at Aztec Ruins National Monument.

Interior of Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument shows the vast size of the structure.

Fifteen top rooms encircle the central chamber of the vast Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument.

" ( A Trail Guide to Aztec Ruins, 4th printing: WNPA, 2004 ).

A Trail Guide to the Aztec Ruins: 4th Printing, WNPA ( Western National Parks Association ), 2004.

* Aztec Ruins National Monument

The ancestral Puebloan site of Aztec Ruins National Monument is situated along the river in the present day town of Aztec and for much of its course the river flows through native Ute and Navajo lands.

In the second game, monkeys could be seen in the story level called Aztec Ruins and there was a multiplayer mode called " Monkey Assistant " where the player in last place was aided by monkeys.

The Aztec Motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico ( built 1932 ) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties as the oldest continuously operating US Route 66 motel in New Mexico.

The Aztec Aztec calendar stone | Sun Stone, also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone, at National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

The building ruins in Mesa Verde National Park were thought to be of Aztec origin at the time.

The Aztec Aztec calendar stone | Sun Stone, also called the Aztec Calendar Stone, on display at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

Monument to Aztec Leader Cuitlahuac on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City

The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.

Aztec feather headdress attributed to Moctezuma II exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México.

The burial dates back to the 1480s and lies at the foot of the main temple in the sacred ceremonial precinct of the Aztec capital.

Depictions of world trees, both in their directional and central aspects, are found in the art and mythological traditions of cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec, and others, dating to at least the Mid / Late Formative periods of Mesoamerican chronology.

Here the Aztec ruler came and conducted important ceremonies once a year, and throughout the year pilgrims offered precious stones and figures at the shrine.

While at SDSU, he wrote for the student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, at times penning so many articles that the paper was jokingly referred to as the " Daily Joe ".

Mesoamericanist scholars such as Veitia, Manuel Orozco y Berra, Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Francisco Clavigero all read the Aztec chronicles and believed them to be realistic historic descriptions of pan-Mesoamerican empire based at Tula, Hidalgo.

This historicist view was first challenged by Daniel Garrison Brinton who argued that the " Toltecs " as described in the Aztec sources were merely one of several Nahuatl speaking citystates in the postclassic period, and not a particularly influential one at that.

This causes Graulich and Gillespie to suggest that the general Aztec cyclical view of time, where events repeated themselves at the end and beginning of cycles or eras was being inscribed into the historical record by the Aztecs, making it futile to attempt to distinguish between a historical Topiltzin Ce Acatl and a Quetzalcoatl deity.

The Aztec Pyramid at St. Cecilia Acatitlan, Mexico State.

When used about ethnic groups the term " Aztec " refers to several Nahuatl speaking peoples of central Mexico in the postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, especially the ethnic group that had a leading role in establishing the hegemonic empire based at Tenochtitlan, the Mexica.

C. H. " Ham " Light, a business partner of Pete Spence and a friend to the Cowboys, heard the first two shots from his room at the Aztec House across the corner from the fight, and went to the window in time to see all but the first two shots fired.

Aztec women are handed flowers and smoking tubes before eating at a banquet, Florentine Codex, 16th century.

The Aztec practiced human sacrifice on an unusually large scale ; a sacrifice would be made every day to aid the sun in rising, the dedication of the great temple at Tenochtitlán was reportedly marked with the sacrificing of thousands, and there are multiple accounts of captured Conquistadores being sacrificed during the wars of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

Aztec burial of a sacrificed child at Tlatelolco ( archaeological site ) | Tlatelolco.

Reputedly universally revered at the time of the Spanish conquest, she was an important deity figure in the Postclassic Aztec realm of central Mexico.

White House Ruins, Canyon de Chelly National Monument

The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site.

* Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

* National Review: In Pol Pot Land: Ruins of varying types Sept 29, 2003.

The first National Wider Opportunity for Senior Girl Scouts, " Recall the Riches restore the Ruins ," was held in Central City in 1973.

It is named after the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, which is actually located in Coolidge.

Coolidge is home of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

* Casa Grande Ruins National Monument @ the National Park Service

The Quarai Ruins of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument are located near the town.