Stone carving (Zoomorph G) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Frame:white

Stone carving (Zoomorph G) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Frame:whiteView 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 west 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

with a man sitting at the coffee hearth and a lamp prominent overhead

carrying a woven basket

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a rocky flat near 'Ayn al Hasy well

and on the right a few men cluster around a well

View of a river flowing down the Ishkoman valley

and the Sandia mountains visible in the distance

In the left foreground an African boy sits behind an array of rigging

A man on a camel

The dune has steep sides which rise into a crescent-shaped crest

The boys are sitting on donkeys which are carrying the large pottery vessels

Image of Palden Lhamo (or Penden Lhamo) the chief protectress of Buddhism and the Dalai Lamas

Portrait of a young Samburu man