Access to Plateia Petra is possible by a tough walk of 3,050 steps up an ancient stairway carved into the rock.

They bypassed the elevator and headed right to the ancient stairway.

"Ah," he said, then followed her up the ancient stairway.

In the cliffs behind the ruins there are ancient stairways that lead to prehistoric roadways that connect to Pueblo Bonito located .5 km to the west.

She mounted ancient stairways that spiralled so high around shafts dribbling with condensation as to shrink into their own vanishing points.

So on they glided down the ancient, darksome stairway, where owls hooted and bats flittered in their faces.

The two ancient stairways winding up its face might have been oddly twisting level roads; along their entire length, as far as Maxine could observe, there was no sign of life.

One hand touched the stone of the ancient stairway, one foot followed; the highlander was only feet away, still unsuspecting, the outer cellar door was ajar and unguarded.

An ancient foot-worn stairway elegantly hewn in the granite bedrock emerged from the rough terrace and climbed for thirty wide steps evenly into the cavern.

This was not an ancient, hidden stairway as Huma first suspected; he passed two windows on his way up to the next level.