Stone carving (Zoomorph P) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Miscellaneous

Stone carving (Zoomorph P) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala MiscellaneousView 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 north face of a carved stone zoomorph known by archaeologists as Zoomorph P, 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 shrine visible in the foreground

View of men and women dancing after a circumcision ceremony

Standing portrait of a Rashid Bedouin man

It is built in the traditional style for this region from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

sits in the sand

Standing full length portrait of an Arab falconer

059 metres)

In the foreground Warad

A lone Arab boy stands in the foreground

In the far distance shrubs grow on a sand dune

along the shoreline

Portrait of sheikhs at Abu Dhabi