Stone carving (Zoomorph G) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Arabia

Stone carving (Zoomorph G) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala ArabiaView of a large stone carving at the ancient Maya site of Quirigua located near the banks of the Motagua river in the department of Izabal, Guatemala. The photograph shows the east side of a carved stone zoomorph known by archaeologists as Zoomorph G, as it was first described by Alfred Maudslay in his seminal publication of the Quirigua site in his multi volume Archaeology (1889 1902). More recent scholarship dates the zoomorph (also known as

In the background limestone walls rise on either side of the narrow valley

and snow-covered mountains (and the Chianta glacier just visible) in the distance

Standing group portrait of three Sahul Bedouin tribesmen at the Ar Rumhiya wells near Ar Riyadh

while a number of Manasir men and boys sit and stand in the sand outside the right section of the tent

In the centre background a group of men walk past tents erected in a grove of trees

View of a few people walking through a public square in the city of Tarim

Landscape at Fughmah

a coffee-pot sit on the fire in front of them

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at Mughshin Oasis

The man faces away from the camera and is wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt

In the foreground a boy hauls water out of a well using ropes

sits on the left holding a rifle