Stone carving (Stela F) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Miscellaneous

Stone carving (Stela F) 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 west side of a carved stone stela known by archaeologists as Stela F, 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 stela (also known as Monument 6) to

including Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan (second from right)

Oraibi 'occupies a position on the top of a mesa on the opposite side of a broad valley some twelve miles west of [Shimopavi]

a sheikh of the Beit Kathir tribe and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

Bushes and a few small trees grow in the sands

View of a group of Sa'ar Bedouin from the Bin Maaruf lineage on the move with their camels at Manwakh well

View of a lone bare tree at the bottom of a high dune in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

View of a tree growing on a sand dune in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah

In the foreground a large folded sail sits on deck in front of a mast

View of a Zuni man standing beside an eagle cage

Two men stand in the foreground

A tribesman of the Duru Bedouin sits in the sand facing forwards

Sultan bin Ahmad