Chaco Canyon's Pueblo Bonito (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Chaco Canyon's Pueblo Bonito

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The elaborate burial of two men in Chaco Canyon's Pueblo Bonito great house -- a 600-room, four-story structure that was considered the center of the Chaco world -- indicates the region may have been ruled by kings living in palaces.

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Image courtesy Steve Lekson, CU-Boulder

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