Casa Grande was a building built around 1350 AD using basically mud. It's 3 stories high. Pretty amazing building something like this plus having it last so long. Surrounding it is a compound with several single story rooms. They think this was a central area for common activities, not a place to live. There's a ball court nearby (the Super Bowl for the Hohokam?). Also, some of the windows mark both solar and lunar dates.
The abandoned building was found by Europeans in 1697. Over the years many people have visited. Some of those people scratched graffitti into the wall. Now they call this "historical graffitti" if it is over 50 years like this one from 1870.
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