They Flooded Glen Canyon in 1963 The Drought Gave Back the Ruins They Said Were Destroyed

In 2022, an archaeologist walked down a dry channel of the San Juan River, in a corner of Utah that for most of his life had been under three hundred feet of water, and stood in front of a thing he had been told did not exist anymore. Around him were the bleached trunks of drowned trees and boulders scoured pale by half a century of reservoir, and where the boaters and their beer cans had floated a decade earlier there was now cracked mud and open air — and set into the canyon wall in front of him, dry and intact in the sun, was a structure of fitted stone that a people had built more than a thousand years ago.
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