Visiting history etched in NM’s El Morro - Silvercity Daily Press

Visiting history etched in NM’s El Morro - Silvercity Daily Press

(Photo Courtesy of Jim Arwood)The 1849 inscription left by Philadelphia artist Richard Kern, who was one of the first Anglos to document the inscriptions on the rock — and leave his own. (Photo Courtesy of Jim Arwood)The face of Atsina — or El Morro, or Inscription Rock — looms above the desert of El Morro National Monument near the Arizona-New Mexico border. By JIM ARWOOD Daily Press Correspondent How I wish I belonged to an ancient culture — s…