Stone carving (Stela A) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Portraits of notable people

Stone carving (Stela A) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Portraits of notable peopleView 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 east side of a carved stone stela known by archaeologists as Stela A, 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 1) to

A third man squats at the edge of the well

buildings line the shore

In the near distance a Qara tribesman stands in the midst of a rocky clearing

On a far dune Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek towards the horizon

View some men with cattle and straw in front of some buildings with mountains in the background

In the foreground is a large patch of dry

Salim bin Kabina stands next to a couched camel

Close up portrait of a curly haired boy of the Mahamid lineage of Duru Bedouin

a large double masted dhow (sailboat) built in Kuwait

Portrait of a boy of the Yam Bedouin

Portrait of two boys at the village of Ash Shuqaiq

He also holds a rifle