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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Relief of a dancing maenad on the base of a pillar in the Seville Archaeological Museum.
    dancing-maenad-ESP201210--0360.jpg
  • Bakong, near the town of Roluos, is the oldest temple in the Angkor Archaeological Park (9th century).  View of the central pyramid of five levels, of brick and sandstone, reconstructed during the 1930s from original building parts.  The pyramid symbolizes Mount Meru of Hindu cosmology.
    Angkor_temple_Bakong_Roluos
  • 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
  • Open-eyed Roman theatrical mask on display at the Merida Archaeological Museum, Spain
    Roman_theater_mask_ESP201210--0045.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.
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  • 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
  • Archaeologist Dr. Roger Martlew setting up a survey at Chapel House Wood, Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire.  Three quarter view in profile with instrument, moor visible beyond.  Slight lens flare visible over the subject's ear.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_06.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
  • Closeup of two hands, belonging to two different people, each gloved and holding a trowel, scraping away in rocky dirt in search of late Roman evidence in Yorkshire's Chapel House Wood.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_03.jpg
  • The ruins of a summer palace built by Abd el Rahman III in the 10th century at the height of his power for his favorite wife (concubine? mistress?) named Azahara.  Elegant and extravagant at the time, known as Medinat al Azahara, the palace was destroyed by a new wave of Berber invaders after which it became a quarry for building material.  Now being excavated and restored for presentation and education.
    Archaeological-site-Medinat_Azahara_...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
  • 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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  • Marble fragment from an ancient Roman sculpture: a beautifully wrought hand gently grasping a length of rope (?)
    Marble_hand_grasping_ESP201210--0356.jpg
  • Archaeologist (a woman) excavating a human skeleton carefully brushes dirt from around the remains. She is seated in a twisted posture, leaning on one hand and wielding a brush in the other. Plastic finds bags lie near, held down with a rock.
    Archaeologist_work_TUR199710-11.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
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  • Winged foot of an ancient Roman statue of Mercury.  Detail of a sculpture in the Aarchaeological Museum of Sevilla, Spain.
    Winged foot ESP201210--0357 (1).jpg
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  • Frontal view of an elaborately draped Roman torso in marble, making a design of swirls and angles.
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  • 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
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  • View of Toledo, Spain, from across the river where a viewing platform has been established.  This is more or less the vantage point from which El Greco painted his famous view of the city.
    ESP201210--4092.jpg
  • Wildly melodramatic Baroque statue of a woman in golden robes holding a golden fish and looking ecstatically upward in a demonstration of faith.  She is in the Sacristy of the Carthusian Charterhouse in Granada, Spain,  built between 1727 and 1764 by Luis de Arévalo and F. Manuel Vasquez
    Cartuja Granada sacristy ESP201210--...jpg
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  • Workman covering kits strings with  colored glass powder for traditional kite flying competition where the aim is to cut other people's strings.
    Glass-powder-kite-string-IND201301--...dng
  • Attractive vegetable display on a cart in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, with hands of women customers turning over the merchandise.
    Vegetables_pushcart_IND201301--2552.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
  • Cambodian man who survived the Khmer Rouge period holds out the kind of locust he and others ate to survive.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps.
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  • Cutout of a torse from an ancient roman statue draped richly in a toga, placed on a plain green background as an illustration.
    Ancient Roman fashion ESP201210--005...jpg
  • Head shot of a man whose business is to cut and shape raw agate into beads, vessels, and arrowheads.  He wears a new beard and moustache and looks friendly but determined.
    Portrait head Gujarati man -IND20130...jpg
  • Misericord_man_cart_ESP201210--4106.jpg
  • Misericord in Toledo Cathedral, showing man and woman seated opposite each other, the man looking miserable and the woman seeming to offer comfort with an extended arm and hand.
    Misericord_couple_ESP201210--4107.jpg
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  • Complutum_ESP201210--4027.jpg
  • Modhera-sun-temple-IND201301--0748.jpg
  • Stringing beads with hands and feet.
    fingers-and-toes-IND201301--0607.jpg
  • On this trip, we were driven many miles, well supplied with oranges, bananas, bottles of drinking water, and a trash bag at each seat.
    tourist-bus-interior-IND201301--0532.jpg
  • Sign in Gujarat, India: "Tourism unites Terrorsim divides."
    Sign-tourism-terrorism-IND201301--05...jpg
  • Many ceramic and bronze plaques are set in the cobbles of Jewish districts of Toledo and other towns.  The Hebrew lettering spells 'safeh" meaning "destroyed, perished, etc." and no doubt refers to the expulsion of the Jews in the 15th century, though the plaques are modern.
    Hebrew_remembrance_ESP201210--2374.jpg
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  • A huddled group of American tourists are dwarfed by the Baroque splendors of the Carthusian monastery church in Granada, Spain.
    Tourists-huddle-Baroque-splendor-ESP...jpg
  • In the entrance to the Merida amphitheater.
    American-tourists-Spanish-guide-ESP2...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--3754.jpg
  • Oman, Bahla Fort, under UNESCO-sponsored restoration.
    Oman_Bahla-OMN200801--3750.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.
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  • 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
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  • Scarred but seemingly  well fed and clean, someone's peet awaits his master.  A typical Indian slum dog, short haired and beige color.
    IND201301--2546.jpg
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  • He is seated cross-legged on a table, wearing a purple shirt, white cap and pants, checkered shawl, and an extremely large turquoise ring.  Which may be a ceramic imitation.
    IND201301--0527 - Copy.jpg
  • We were driven many miles, well supplied with oranges, bananas, bottles of drinking water, and a trash bag at each seat.
    IND201301--0532 - Copy.jpg
  • Blank eyed theatrical mask on display in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Merida, Spain.  It wears a Phrygian cap, which in the western provinces of the Roman Empire came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, perhaps through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome.
    Ancient Roman theatrical mask ESP201...jpg
  • Three portraits in sequence: with and without sunglasses, hair tied back and hair let down
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  • View of Toledo, Spain, from across the river where a viewing platform has been established.  This is more or less the vantage point from which El Greco painted his famous view of the city.
    Toledo_ESP201210--4092.jpg
  • Misericord in the choir of Toledo Cathedral showing a man with a loaf of bread (?) in each hand, as though offering them for sale or delivery.
    Misericord_delivery_man_ESP201210--4...jpg
  • Carved wooden misericord in the choir stalls of Toledo Cathedral, showing a man pulling a woman in a basket.  She looks out at us, seemingly not pleased.
    Misericord_couple_ESP201210--4105.jpg
  • Basket of rose petals and blooms offered for sale At the shrine to Bava Gor (Baba Ghaur) near Limbodra, Gujarat.
    rose_petals_pattern_IND201301--0520-...jpg
  • Cobblestones laid in a fan pattern on a medieval street in Alcala de Henares, Spain.  Shadowed legs and feet of two pedestrians at the top of the image.  Cobblestone pattern is confined to panels separated by strips of white marble.
    Cobblestone_fan_shape_ESP201210--236...jpg
  • Brick wall with horizontal stripes or layers of stone masonry in the Alhambra
    stone_wall_closeup_ESP201210--0235.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
  • Scarred but seemingly  well fed and clean, someone's pet awaits his master.  A typical Indian slum dog, short haired and beige color.
    sleeping-dog-on-motorbike-IND201301-...jpg
  • Street scene in Khambat, Gujarat, India, showing facade of the town library, reader seen through open window; bicycle leaning against the wall.
    Village-library-IND201301--0612.jpg
  • Flaking stone knives using inverse indirect percussion technique with wooden hammer against an iron spike embedded in the ground.
    Stone-flaking-ancient-method-IND2013...jpg
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  • Throwing rose petals on luncheon guests at the Jambughoda restaurant and ex-maharahah palace, now a retreat center.
    IND201301--0536.jpg
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