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  • Views of the archaeological site at Al Baleed, part of UNESCO's Land of Frankincense preservation area.  Information at http://www.omanet.om/english/tourism/herit/archo.asp?cat=tour&subcat=herit1
    Ancient_site_Al_Baleed_OMN200801--41...jpg
  • Young woman, an Earthwatch volunteer, makes a measured drawing through a grid laid on a corner of an excavation site.  Yorkshire moor and forest visible beyond.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_08.jpg
  • Closeup from behind of a woman kneeling on a rock pile to dig for archaeological finds.  Trowel in her gloved left hand, bucket visible on her right, boot soles below, and her nice wide bottom take up most of the image.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_10.jpg
  • 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
  • Ancient Roman dining couch as excavated at Almenadilla, near Cordoba.  The site known in Spain as Villa Romana de "el Ruedo." Appears to have been a sanitarium or hospice where sick people went to be cared for until death.
    Almenadilla_Roman-couch-ESP201210--2...jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Doric temple of Athena or Ceres showing its orientation toward the sacred mountain above the site.  The perfect parallelism of the flanking colonnade visually locks with the landscape beyond.  For more about this theory, see Vincent Scully's "The Earth, the temple, and the gods."
    Paestum_temple_landscape_ITA200610-0...jpg
  • Column capitals of the Temple of Athena at Assos, Turkey, lie scattered on the ground in 1968.The temple, is sited on a cliff that overlooked the ancient city (where Aristotle lived for a time) and now overlooks a tiny picturesque village port. It is the earliest archaic Doric temple in Turkey, dating about 530 BC.
    Assos_archaic_Doric_capitals_TUR1968...jpg
  • Redheaded Earthwatch volunteer Clay Russell trots a wheelbarrow full of stones up a hill.  He wears sunglasses and gloves but his red hair shouts in the sun.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_05.jpg
  • Earthwatch volunteer Robert Sherwin, seated with a drawing board on his knee, makes a careful measured drawing of the archaeological site at Chapel House Wood.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_04.jpg
  • Views of the archaeological site at Al Baleed, part of UNESCO's Land of Frankincense preservation area.  Carved stone column capital lies on the ground.
    Al_Baleed_archaeological_site_OMN200...jpg
  • Harappan brick wall at Lothal, showing the side of a building with drains at the bottom of the wall.  Harappan bricks are larger than modern bricks, and of varying sizes.
    Harappan_Lothal_IND201301--0844.jpg
  • Longitudinal view of a vast ancient water tank at Dholavira showing how it was excavated down to the bedrock.
    Harappan_Dholavira_IND201301--2766ed.jpg
  • Detail of Harappan masonry at Lothal in a detailed view of a pavement showing for size contrast a single modern brick.
    Harappan_Lothal_IND201301--0839.jpg
  • Lothal Harappan city mound, partly excavated, seen from across its water tank.
    Harrappan_Lothal_IND201301--0833ed.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
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  • 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
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  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature with horse's head peering out from the pediment corner.  Metope figures faintly discernible.
    GRC197804-1-16m.jpg
  • Acropolis, Parthenon: detail of a damaged column.
    GRC197804-2-09.jpg
  • Cambodian man who survived the Khmer Rouge period holds out the kind of locust he and others ate to survive.
    KHM200602--378m.jpg
  • Elderly Cambodian man pauses by an outdoor water pump in the town of Siem Reap, smiling cheerfully.  He says that he stayed alive by hiding in villages where nobody knew him.
    KHM200602-310.jpg
  • Modhera-sun-temple-IND201301--0748.jpg
  • Acropolis, Erechtheum, details of restoration work ongoing.  Tools, planks, scaffolding.  Olive tree growing from foundation.
    GRC197804-2-17m.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.
    GRC197804-2-10.jpg
  • Blonde Western tourist in discussion with a crowd of Indian adolescents on a school visit about taking their photograph.
    American-tourist-Indian-teens-IND201...jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.
    GRC197804-2-10.jpg
  • View towards the Parthenon from inside the Propylaea..  Planks provide footing for visitors while workmen build scaffolding..
    GRC197804-2-14m.jpg
  • Crumbled city gate at the Harappan city of Dholavira, Gujarat, India.
    Harappan_Dholavira_IND201301--2780ed.jpg
  • Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps.
    USA.VA201209-a-0757.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
  • Panel showing three Apsara dancers among flourishing plants in a wall in Angkor Thom.
    Khmer Apsara KHM200602--286 copy cop...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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Thom : Naga balustrade on the entrance causeway over the moat.  Close up of deity head, hand, and foot.
    Angkor deity KHM200602-351.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sicily, Syracuse, Greek theater, 5th century, view of the theater from the hill above showing how the entire auditorium fits into the slope of the hill.  Landscape and ocean sea in the distance, blue sy and white clouds above.
    ITA200610-044m.jpg
  • Acropolis, Erechtheum, details of restoration work ongoing, seen from the lower side below the porch.  One corner caryatid visible, before they were replaced with replicas.
    Erectheum_GRC197804-2-15.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, Detail of saw leaning against the base of a Propylon column.  The column flutes are clearly delineated, as it the fact that it has shifted on the platform.
    Athens_Acropolis_GRC197804-2-11.jpg
  • Acropolis, Parthenon: detail of a damaged column of the peristyle.  One vast gouge out of the column shaft.  Scaffolding visible beyond, around the cella..
    Parthenon_GRC197804-2-09.jpg
  • Acropolis: Temple of Nike detail: damaged Ionic frieze and capitals showing holes and broken cornice.
    Nike_GRC197804-1-29.jpg
  • Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps.
    Modhera-sun-temple-USA.VA201209-a-07...jpg
  • Stonehenge from the heel stone.  A line of visitors dotted along the skyline.
    Stonehenge_view_heel_stone_ENG198707...jpg
  • Agrigento or Akragas: Temple of Concord with scaffolding and demonstration curtain on west facade restoration scaffolding meant to show the original appearance of the temple.  Restoration is funded by EC and has to be finished by the end of 2006.  Later photos do not show the curtain.
    ITA200610-028.jpg
  • Qala i Kuhna Mascid in the Purana Qila ("Old Fort") area, Delhi.  This mosque was built by the Afghan chieftain Sher Shah Sur 1541 who had dispossessed the second Mughal emperor, Humayun (who eventually defeated Sher Shah's successors in 1555..
    Qala i Kuhna Mascid IND200111-01-13.jpg
  • Acropolis, Erechtheum, details of restoration work ongoing..
    Erectheum_GRC197804-2-17.jpg
  • Acropolis, Parthenon: details of temple base and substructure, weeds growing in between the stones..
    Parthenon_stylobate_GRC197804-2-06.jpg
  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature, looking upward at one corner showing a piece of a column capital broken off and a gaping space along one cornice.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-1-15.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temple seen from ruins of the city.  An oak (?) tree towers over the ancient structure, still standing.  A different interpretation of nature overcoming the works of man.
    Paestum_trees_ITA200610-083.tif
  • Ostia Antica. Headless statue, wearing a toga, along the street; umbrella pine tree behind it.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1028.jpg
  • Angkor, Banteay Srei:  cluster of central sanctuaries and other structures; two tourists in white hats in the foreground..
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Srei_interior_...jpg
  • Volubilis, provincial Roman city in Morocco with many floor mosaics still in situ. Mosaic details from the "House of Orpheus."  Medallion showing Hercules leading the Cretan Bull (7th labor) -- the bull seeming quite tame and small.  Awkward provincial style.
    Volubilis_mosaics_in_situ_Moroccan_M...jpg
  • Volubilis, ancient Roman provincial city with many floor mosiacs still in situ. Mosaic details from the "House of Orpheus."  Medallion showing Hercules with the Stymphalian Birds (6th labor).  Somewhat coarse provincial style.
    Volubilis_mosaics_in_situ_Moroccan_M...jpg
  • View down the main city street, toward the main city gate and distant landscape.  Street is lined with wall stumps of the ancient houses and shops, many with mosaic floors still in situ.
    Volubilis_MOR200411_0443.jpg
  • View across the partly reconstructed Roman amphitheater at Merida, Spain.
    Merida_amphitheater_ESP201210--0027.jpg
  • Modhera, 11th century Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps, orchard beyond.  The all-over carvings of the columns are in Jain style.
    Modhera_Sun_Temple_IND201301-0757.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.  One on the ground, one on the scaffold; tourists leaving the Acropolis around them; Parthenon and Erechtheum visible beyond.
    Athens_Propylaea_GRC197804-2-14.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.  One on the ground gestures to another on scaffolding by the Propylon.  Tourists wander about, some picking their way toward the Propylon.  Parthenon itself partially visible on the left.
    Athens_Acropolis_GRC197804-2-10.jpg
  • Athens Acropolis repair needs in detail of broken colonnade.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-1-19.jpg
  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature.  Doric column capitals, abaci, entablature, and a corner of the cornice with horse's head silhouetted against blue sky..
    Parthenon_GRC197804-1-16.jpg
  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature showing broken cornice and one metope still in situ.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-1-12.jpg
  • Segesta: View from behind the ancient Elymian temple itself into the quarry from which its building rocks were dug out.  It is a vast hole.  Beyond, farm fields, pine forest, and a high hill.
    Segesta-quarry-landscape-ITA200610-2...tif
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : partial view of two adjoining temples, side by side, so that all their columns seem to cluster together.  A group of tourists partly visible below one of the temple platforms.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-097.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Temple of HeraII, Neptune, or Hera and Zeus.  Classic 5th century Doric style.  Part of its peristyle columns and entablature are visible through pine trees and shrubbery.  The temple points toward the mountain in the distance.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-090.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres from the city ruins and wall stumps.  An umbrella pine dominates the area.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-082.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres; workman in orange jumpsuit wields a motorized weed clipper in front of the temple.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-073.jpg
  • Volubilis, ancient Roman provincial city in Morocco. Mosaic details from the "House of Orpheus."   Head of a woman, possibly the goddess Hera who made trouble for Hercules.  She looks a bit grim.
    Volubilis_mosaics_in_situ_Moroccan_M...jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.  One on the scaffold of the Propylon tightens a clamp around a column.
    Athens_Propylaea_GRC197804-2-13.jpg
  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature on the eastern side,  Upward view of cornice, metopes, one column capital.  In the pediment, one horse's head and one god's knee project above the cornice.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-1-14.jpg
  • Approaching the Acropolis, the Parthenon roof and entablature appear peeking over the heights.
    Athens_Acropolis_GRC197804-01-11.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : view across the ancient city ruins toward the temple of Athena or Ceres.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-076.jpg
  • Woman in red shirt and cap concentrates on digging through a rock pile in an excavation site at Chapel House Wood, Wharfedale, Yorkshire.  Moor visible beyond the excavation site.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_07.jpg
  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.
    IND201301--0565 - Copy.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
  • 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
  • Oman, entrance and views of 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.
    Omani_people_OMN200801--4074.jpg
  • Colonnade of the Quwwat ul Islam mosque in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park, Delhi.  Early Islamic structure in India uses rich Hindu ornament on the columns of the prayer hall.  Tourists linger in the shadow of a column, only partly visible.
    Delhi_Mehrauli_IND200111-1-7.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
  • Oman, view of the sinkhole 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
  • Oman, entrance and views of 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.
    OMN200801--4074.jpg
  • Oman, view of 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
  • A group of seven survivors of land mine explosions earn a living by performing traditional Cambodian music in the Angkor Archaeological Park.  They also sell CDs of their performances.  They are seated on the ground in the dappled shade of the Angkor forest, their prosthetics and crutches scattered around them.  They are outside the temple of Banteay Srei, frequented by tourists.
    Land-mine-musicians-Angkor-KHM200602...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
  • Map of the archaeological site at Al Baleed, part of UNESCO's Land of Frankincense preservation area, on a board posted near the entrance.
    Al_Baleed_Oman_OMN200801--4213.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
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  • Oman, Bahla Fort, under UNESCO-sponsored restoration.
    Oman_Bahla_OMN200801--3754.jpg
  • Oman, ruins of the city of Qalhat.  Only the mosque of Bibi Maryam remains, built in the 13th century when Qalhat was a wealthy trading port, visited by Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta.  Earthquake levelled it in 14th century.  Single figure of a man in the doorway and outside the small, symmetrical structure. Wearing an orange dishdasha, he holds a point-and-shoot digital camera.  Ocean horizon and bright blue sky beyond.
    Qalhat_ruined_mosque_OMN200801--3996.jpg
  • Oman, Bahla Fort, under UNESCO-sponsored restoration.
    Oman_Bahla-OMN200801--3750.jpg
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