A rectangular opening serves as a window to the interior of the Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico. These small chambers were used like modern-day "box seats", allowing occupants a front-row seat to the religious ceremonies used inside the kiva.
Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico - bright sunlight streams into the underground ceremonial chamber unearthed during excavations in the early 1900s and reconstructed for visitors.
A stack of carved stone slabs sits on the dirt floor inside the Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico. Black and white.
