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  • My Son Champa archaeological site, central Vietnam.  Became a World Heritage site in 1999.  Four sided column base set aside for a museum on the site:  each side has a relief sculpture of a smiling, grinning female caryatid kneeling with arms upraised to hold up the top of the base..
    Female_caryatids_My_Son_VTN200602-10...jpg
  • Entrance to the temple precinct of Vishnu at Changu Narayan in the Kathmandu Valley.  A temple has been on the site since the 5th century.  Changu Narayan is one of the Monument Zones designated by UNESCO as a world heritage site.
    Nepal-Changu-Narayan-NPL200110-6-1a.jpg
  • Bhaktapur, World Heritage city, Shiva statue, head & shoulders, trident behind.  The face is daubed with red paint in celebration of Dasain.
    Statue Shiva Bhaktapur NPL200110-2-9.jpg
  • Bhaktapur, World Heritage city, Shiva statue, head & shoulders, trident behind.  The face is daubed with red paint in celebration of Dasain..
    NPL200110-2-9.jpg
  • Dubrovnik: view from the Serbian position from which the Yugoslav People's Army bombarded Dubrovnik 1991-1992.  The site is peaceful now, covered with yellow flowering broom.  The city gleams in the distance as a cruise ship makes its way from the Dubrovnik harbor out to sea.
    HRV200606-325 (1).jpg
  • Oman, entrance to the ruins at Ubar (also known as Shisr or Wubar).  Remains of stone built walls, with sinkhole below into which the ancient site fell. Though the Quran story describes a wealthy city which vanished, this site was most probably a walled caravanserai around a water hole.  About 30 campsites have been identified in the vicinity.  Site identified by Wilfred Thesiger and Nicholas Clapp in 1990, using satellite photographs.
    Oman_Wubar_ruins_Ancient_Oman_Omani_...jpg
  • Dubrovnik from the Serbian position in 1991-92 from which they bombarded the ancient town.  The site is peaceful now, covered with yellow flowering broom.  The city gleams in the distance as a cruise ship makes its way toward the Dubrovnik harbor.
    Dubrovnik-defense-HRV200606-325.jpg
  • Tempietto di Bramante, in courtyard of San Pietro di Montorio. 1502, on the site where St. Peter is supposed to have been crucified.  Round, Doric order, dome, seen through arched entrance.
    Bramante-tempietto-Rome_ITA200901--1...jpg
  • Cat resident in Trajan's Markets area patrols Trajan's Forum.  Many ancient Roman sites are also cat sanctuaries.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0489.JPG
  • Oman, Sumhuram ruins, views over the remains toward the Indian Ocean and the ancient harbor.  An Omani man explores the area, having never been there before.
    Sumhuram_archaeological_site_OMN2008...jpg
  • Sumhuram, details of ashlar masonry walls (1st century BC) of the entrance to the ancient city.  Carved inscription in ancient South Arabian language, covered by a protective transparent plastic ( Lucite?)  shield.  Sumhuram, was an outpost of the pre-Islamic kingdom of Hadramawt on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, now in the Dhofar region of Oman.  The language of the inscription is yet untranslated.
    Sumhuram_archaeological_site_OMN2008...jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. Rose window from the outside.
    HRV200606-008.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins; looking up at bare ruined choirs and empty arches against a plain blue sky.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_316.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: looking up at the bare ruined choirs, empty arches.
    Fountains_Abbey ENG200607-302.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins, detail of exterior wall and buttresses.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_300.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: detail of one bay in the nave, with clerestory windows above.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_328.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins; looking along the south aisle.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_323.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: ashlar masonry detail of finely shaped rectangular stones.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_324.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: exterior of east front; family picknicking at one corner.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_308.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: ashlar masonry of a column in the nave.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_331.jpg
  • Bare ruined choirs:  nave of Fountains Abbey looking westward.  Pillars and arches cast powerful shadows on the smooth grass.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_320.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins; looking west down the empty nave, with shadow pattern from the columns.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_306.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins, looking up at the bare ruined choirs and empty arches
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_303.jpg
  • Angkor Thom: a skinny little boy fishing in the rubble-filled city moat using a torn fish net; Bayon temple face towers beyond.
    KHM200602-039m.jpg
  • Orchestra of land mine victims playing outside Banteay Srei temple, Angkor.  All have lost one limb or another.
    KHM200602-087 .jpg
  • Female guard at Banteay Srei seated in the window frame of the temple.
    KHM200602-118.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. Six or seven tourists, seen from the chest up, waiting out a rainstorm in the entrance or narthex.  People nearer the door look up at the sky.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-017.jpg
  • Incense seller outside a Buddhist shrine in the Angkor Wat temple precinct.  The wall behind him has a small sculptured relief of Apsara dancers.  He is middle aged, rather good looking, and his face seems timid and anxious with a core of strength and determination underneath.
    KHM200602-045.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins.  View of colonnade separating the nave and side aisle on the north side.
    Fountains Abbey ENG200607_307.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence.  View across the cathedral square in a rainstorm as tourists scurry for cover
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-024.jpg
  • Statue of the guardian lion, seated, in front of the north entrance, by Nikola Firentinac, a Florentine sculptor (d. 1435).  Side view of its rigid posture and proportionately small head, grinning vacuously.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-006.jpg
  • View of Wadi el Ayn ( Ain ), Oman, showing hill topped by Iron Age beehive tombs; in the distance, a village, and beyond a mountain, under a clear pale blue sky.
    Oman_OMN200801--3648.jpg
  • Detail, head of St. James, from the statue on the portal, right side.  Hair schematized in narrow parallel ridges; stern facial expression.
    St. James Sibenik HRV200606-009.jpg
  • Detail, head of St. James, from the statue on the portal, right side.  Hair schematized in narrow incised parallel ridges; stern facial expression.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-009.jpg
  • Dubrovnik restored: Croatian flag flying in the old town square .
    Dubrovnik HRV200606-286.jpg
  • HRV200606-017.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. Rose window from the outside.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-008.jpg
  • Ruins of Iron Age beehive tombs at Wadi el Ayn, seen as a sloping graphic pattern of rocks with distant overlapping hills and a sunlit cliff in the distance.
    Oman_OMN200801-3651.jpg
  • Angkor Ta Prohm, perspective view down a corridor, orange-robed monk pausing in the distance.
    KHM200602-147.jpg
  • Restored Dubrovnik homes have largely new roofs,made from tiles specially manufactured in Spain by original methods.  Citizens saves many of the original roof tiles, however, and these are used when visible wherever possible, while the new tiles have been set underneath them.  This view includes an unrestored roofless abbey church, though its vegetable garden is in active use.
    HRV200606-265a.jpg
  • View of the abbey church and refectory from the southwest.  Lawn and wall stumps of vanished buildings in the foreground.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200208-09.jpg
  • View across the main courtyard toward the Panch Mahal, or five storey palace, at Fatehpur Sikri, off the road between Agra and Jaipur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1569 by the Mughal emperor Akbar, and served as the capital of the Mughal Empire from 1571 to 1585, when the city was abandoned for lack of water.
    Fatehpur_Sikri_Panch_Mahal_IND200111...jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm: giant rubber(?) tree on the entrance path.
    KHM200602_146.jpg
  • Peristyle, Diocletian's Palace, looking toward the entrance to the palace residential area.  Groups of tourists standing about, seated on the steps; one holds up her camera, another studies a guidebook, others in the center cluster around their guide.
    HRV200606-112.jpg
  • View from the interior of the window of pierced stone in squares, each square filled with a geometric or curvelinear motif.
    Geometric-window-grille-IND201301--0...jpg
  • Frontal view of three young men in colorful costume with drum and spears marching down the main street.
    HRV200606-364.jpg
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  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.
    IND201301--0565 - Copy.jpg
  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, view of courtyard and enclosure from entrance porch.  Jain craftsmen applying Jain techniques to Moslem building.
    Champaner-Jama-Mascid-IND201301--054...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: apsara dancers in relief betwen windows filled with carved stone balusters.
    KHM200602--062.jpg
  • Angkor Wat: shrine worker collecting money offerings from a Buddhist altar within Angkor Wat. One of the sacred pools visible outside the doorways.
    KHM200602_089.jpg
  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.  Mughal ornament in a provincial style locally known as Indo-Saracenic.  Tomb in the center of the precinct, arcaded enclosure wall beyond.
    Champaner_Friday_Mosque_IND201301--0...jpg
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  • Statue of the guardian lion, seated, in front of the north entrance, by Nikola Firentinac, a Florentine sculptor (d. 1435).  Side view of its rigid posture and proportionately small head.
    HRV200606-006.jpg
  • Tivoli, Villa Adriana, Maritime Theatre.  Remains of the emperor's private study, on an islet surrounded by a moat.
    Villa_Adriana_ITA200901--0902.jpg
  • A Temple to Shiva with light scaffolding around it and a billboard examined by a male visitor: Italian-funded UNESCO conservation works in progress.
    My_Son_VTN200602--0463.jpg
  • Oman, Sumhuram ruins, views over the remains toward the Indian Ocean and the ancient harbor.  An Omani man explores the area, having never been there before.
    OMN200801--4109.jpg
  • One of the beehive tombs at Bat, Oman, dating from 2500 BC.  Tombs were robbed long ago.  Inscription painted on a rock in the interior says, in Arabic, "forbidden to enter"
    OMN200801--3639.jpg
  • One of the beehive tombs at Bat, Oman, dating from 2500 BC.  Tombs were robbed long ago.  Inscription painted on a rock in the interior says, in Arabic, "forbidden to enter"
    OMN200801--3639.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Som temple: detail of one Apsara dancer figure in a niche, surrounded by scrolled foliage ornament.  She is bare-breasted and wears an enigmatic smile as one arm is raised holding what looks like a club.
    Khmer Apsara KHM200602--253.jpg
  • Oman, Sumhuram ruins, views over the remains toward the Indian Ocean and the ancient harbor.  View over the remaining wall stumps of the harbor warehouses.
    Sumhuram_ancient_harbor_OMN200801--4...jpg
  • One of the beehive tombs at Bat, Oman, dating from 2500 BC.  Tombs were robbed long ago.  Inscription painted on a rock in the interior says, in Arabic, "forbidden to enter"
    Oman_Bat_beehive_tomb_OMN200801--363...jpg
  • Portrait of an Omani young man in white dishdasha and red turban, seen in profile against a blue sky and distant desert landscape.  He is a guide at the ruins of the ancient port city of Sumhuram, southern Oman.
    OMN200801--4105.jpg
  • Panel showing three Apsara dancers among flourishing plants in a wall in Angkor Thom.
    Khmer Apsara KHM200602--286 copy cop...jpg
  • Angkor Thom : Naga balustrade on the entrance causeway over the moat.  Close up of deity head, hand, and foot.
    Angkor deity KHM200602-351.jpg
  • Portrait of an Omani young man in white dishdasha and red turban, seen in profile against a blue sky and distant desert landscape.  He is a guide at the ruins of the ancient port city of Sumhuram, southern Oman.
    Profile of a young Omani in red turban
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon, four faced towers of the temple.  The giant heads, each facing a cardinal compass point as protection, may be portraits of Jayavarman VII, the king who built the temple XII century.  This head wears a broad, satisfied smile.
    Ancient_Khmer_king_head_KHM200602--2...jpg
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon temple approached from the west gate in morning sunshine.
    Angkor_Thom_Bayon_entrance_KHM200602...jpg
  • Tivoli, Villa Adriana, view along the wall of the former atrium that sheltered after-dinner strollers from the sun or rain and ran alongside the pecile, or fish pond.
    Villa_Adriana_ITA200901--0893.jpg
  • Ruins of a trade warehouse near the vast Wadi Haynun, near the UNESCO "Land of Frankincense" preservation area, Dhofar, Oman.  The wall stumps are the remains of a stopover on the frankincense trade route through the Arabian peninsula.
    Wadi_Haynun_Dhofar_OMN200801--4063.jpg
  • Angkor Wat : carved wall reliefs. West gallery, battle of Kurukshetra between Kauravas and Pandavas. Detail of running line of warriors.
    Angkor Kurukshetra KHM200602--050.jpg
  • Angkor forest : trunk and crown of a rubber tree, looking upward.
    rubber_tree_KHM200602-129.jpg
  • Taj Mahal at sunset from the other side of the Jumna river; buffalo walking by, on its way home.  The entire complex is visible: tomb, guest house, and mosque.  Two figures in the distance in brightly colored saris.
    Taj_Mahal_sunset_IND200111-3-26.jpg
  • Stonehenge, closeup of a group of the central bluestone structures.  In the distance, a hiker is seen.
    Stonehenge_sarcen_stones_ENG198707-2...jpg
  • Angkor Wat, Naga figure on fence surrounding temple terrace, dirt road into forest beyond.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior-Seven-headed naga
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple walls and buildings clasped in vast tangles of tree roots.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_KHM200602-134.jpg
  • Angkor Thom: entrance causeway with gods and demons holding naga.
    Angkor_Wat_detail_sculpture_KHM20060...jpg
  • Oman, Bahla Fort, under UNESCO-sponsored restoration.
    Oman_Bahla_OMN200801--3754.jpg
  • Vatican. St. Peter's Basilica, detail of facade looking up to two column capitals, and cornice, with fragments of sculpture projecting above, including a disembodied arm and a papal crown.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--1281.jpg
  • Cloister and Renaissance facade of Santa Clemente.  Woman tourist with camera.  Cobblestoned pavement, graceful arched 18th century facade using ancient columns for the colonnade.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1260.jpg
  • San Clemente, ancient Roman street level underneath the later churches built over it.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--0691-2.jpg
  • Colosseum; outer corridor with external pillars, heavily pockmarked.
    Colosseum_Rome_ITA200901--0343.jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum; detail of a head of a boy looking frightened, as part of a snake coils over his upper arm..
    Boy_head_Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--029...jpg
  • Angkor Thom: entrance causeway with gods and demons holding naga.
    KHM200602--093.tif
  • Group of seven musicians playing traditional Southeast Asian instruments provide concert music and offer CDs of their performances for sale, outside one of the Angkor temples.  All are amputees, victims of land mine explosions, and this is how they earn a living.  One man, hand to his mouth, is actually playing the melody on a broad leaf.
    KHM200602-088 (1).jpg
  • Oman, Nakhl fortress.  Built by Al Arabiyah dynasty imam who threw the Portuguese out of Oman in the 1640s.  Used until the 1950s as the residence of the local wali (governor). Restored in the 1990s.
    OMN200801--3589.jpg
  • Grass-covered chalk ditch studded with buttercups surrounds the stone circle at Avebury; distant walkers seen from the bottom of the ditch which is 20 ft deep and 1396 ft in diameter.  Earthworks dated 2500 BC
    Avebury ditch ENG198306-36ptg.jpg
  • Top of a gopura, or gate, to a temple precinct, with sculptured heads of the king or a god facing in each of the four cardinal directions as a symbol of protection for the people.
    Angkor head KHM200602--278.jpg
  • Incense seller outside a Buddhist shrine in the Angkor Wat temple precinct.  The wall behind him has a small sculptured relief of Apsara dancers.  H is middle aged, rather good looking, and his face seems timid and anxious with a core of strength and determination underneath.
    Portrait-KHM200602-045.jpg
  • Angkor Wat : carved wall reliefs. West gallery, battle of Kurukshetra between Kauravas and Pandavas. Detail of leader in chariot
    Angkor Kurukshetra KHM200602-049.jpg
  • Oman, Nakhl fortress.  Built by Al Arabiyah dynasty imam who threw the Portuguese out of Oman in the 1640s.  Used until the 1950s as the residence of the local wali (governor). Restored in the 1990s.
    Still_life_OMN200801--3589.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple walls and buildings clasped in vast tangles of tree roots. The perimeter wall of Ta Prohm is clasped by a silk-cotton or kapok tree's buttress roots.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_exterior_tree...JPG
  • Angkor Ta Prohm, perspective view down a corridor, orange-robed monk pausing in the distance.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_interior-KHM2...jpg
  • Angkor Wat : carved wall reliefs showing the Kurukshetra War described in the Mahabharata; detail of two commanders on horseback, two more just behind them.  Extremely fine low relief sculpture.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_relief_KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor Thom: Bayon, sculptures of apsara danceres in high relief, with panels of caraved foliage
    Angkor_Thom_sculpture-detail_KHM2006...jpg
  • Sukothai, statue of a walking Buddha outside the Wat Traphang Nguyen.  An offering of a few white blossoms hangs from his upraised left hand.  The figure appears to sway in some kind of sacred dance.
    Sukhothai_Buddha_Traphang_Nguyen_THA...jpg
  • Sukothai, Wat Mahathat seen from across a pond in which it is partly reflected
    Sukhothai_wat_Mahathat__THA200603_11...jpg
  • Taj Mahal from the east at sunrise, with a row of 7 visitors seated in the foreground shadow. One minaret visible at the left..
    Taj_Mahal_sunrise_IND200111-3-25a.jpg
  • Taj Mahal: domes with hibiscus shrub in foreground, its red blooms and round shape echoing and contrasting with the white marble and round dome of the Taj.
    Taj_Mahal_IND200111-3-7.jpg
  • Taj Mahal terrace, looking westward along the Jumna River. Part of the adjoining mosque and its chhatri.  Bench for visitors to enjoy the view, empty now.
    Taj_Mahal_terrace_IND200111-3-10.jpg
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