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On our way back down to Phoenix, we stopped to visit Montezuma Castle National Monument. Mistakenly thought to be Aztec-built, this dwelling nestled in the limestone cliff is five stories tall with 20 rooms. Sinagua Indians built it between 1150 and 1400. Around 1400, they left the area, perhaps because of drought, and assimilated with the Hopi who lived in the mesas not too far away, evidence of which is found in the Hopi's oral tales. In 1951, the National Park Service closed the Montezu...

about AD 1100 a dry farming culture known as the sinaguan,  entered this area from the north. around AD 1250 they began building communal structures in the cliffs. two of these evolved into five-story houses. Montezuma castle contained 20 rooms while Castle A, 100 yards to the west, contained 45.  it might have been considered a castle as this particular cliff dwelling was situated so high up in the cliffs, and remains so perfectly intact. unfortunatelu, i was not bale to go up to t...