Stone carving (Stela C) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Arabia

Stone carving (Stela C) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala ArabiaView 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 C, 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 3) to

On the far left another well opening has been filled in with sand

View of landscape in the Wadi Jarsis in the Jabal Qara mountains

In the near foreground a camel is couched in the sand

The square stone buildings are built alongside a vast rocky field

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions and their camels rest on a vast flat plain beside a clump of large bushes

Two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bayt Kathir Bedouin guides sit in the sand

In the left distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions sits on a camel standing next to a few large bushes growing on the slope of a sand dune dotted with scattered vegetation

where a ridge of low dunes borders the flat along the horizon

reading religious texts outside a sick man's tent

a few more ridges of dunes rise in front of a large salt flat (sabkha)

Further behind a ruined building

Prayer flags on top of buildings