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  • A rock carving of a face adorns the cornerstone of a temple at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture in Peru's Cordillera Central.
    PE 1630.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sherpa stonecarver carving a boulder into a "mani stone" with Tibetan Buddhist prayers.
    KF 0115.jpg
  • Russian women walk below an ornately carved log building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-153.jpg
  • Russian teenagers walk and chat below an aging, ornately carved wooden building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-152.jpg
  • Russian women chat on a bench below an ornately carved log building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-151.jpg
  • Huge, intricately carved stone blocks near Cuzco, Peru are all that remains of Sacsayhuaman, once a massive Inca temple  carved by the Inca.
    PT 4415.jpg
  • A young lowland Hindu woman rests after carrying a basketful of goods to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.  Behind her is a huge mani stone carved with Tibetan Buddhist prayers.
    KF 0802.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) studies carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.   Sasha is a renowned pioneer of Mongolian archaeology, some of it pursued & published during Soviet era.
    MGe 060626-018.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.   <br />
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    MGe 060626-015.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Sasha is a pioneer Mongolian researcher, who did much work and publication during the Soviet era.  <br />
MS0702_060626_0129.NEF
    MGe 060626-013.jpg
  • Elaborately carved pagoda roofs rise above Hindu temples in Kathmandu's Durbar Square, Nepal.
    KM 0228.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Carved Tibetan Buddhist Mani (prayer) stone, reading "Hail to Jewel in the Lotus."
    AA 3109.jpg
  • Archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh points out carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone to visitors to his site at Ulaan Tolgai,  near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia. <br />
MS0702_060626_0180.NEF
    MGe 060626-019.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-017.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Sasha is a pioneer Mongolian researcher, who did much work and publication during the Soviet era.   <br />
MS0702_060626_0135.NEF
    MGe 060626-014.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA.  Mani stone along Mt. Everest Base Camp trail in Khumbu Region.  This is carved with Tibetan Buddhist prayers.
    K 0214.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Carved Tibetan Buddhist Mani (prayer) stone, reading "Hail to Jewel in the Lotus."
    AA 3816.jpg
  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Tibetan Buddhist mani stones, carved with prayers and placed in a wall beside a trail in Thame village, Khumbu region.
    K 0509.jpg
  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Tibetan Buddhist mani stones, carved with prayers and placed in a wall beside Mount Everest Base Camp trail, Khumbu region
    K 0320.jpg
  • The steeple of an old Russian Orthodox church and a modern communications tower demonstrate the contrasts to be found in the northern Russian shipping port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-154.jpg
  • A Hindu shrine stands beside a trail in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal.
    L 0075.jpg
  • Finely-crafted windows punctuate the log wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in a taiga forest near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-069.jpg
  • Finely-crafted windows punctuate the log wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-052.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-021.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds Ulaan Tolgoi near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-011.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-034.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-025.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-008.jpg
  • Cyrillic prayers ornament an historic  Russian Orthodox cross relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in a taiga forest near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-054.jpg
  • An ancient Sythian  deer stone at Ushkin Uver archaeological site near Moron, Mongolia.
    MGe 080716-091.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-033.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-029.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-020.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands by sheep pastures near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060701-006.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.
    MGe 060630-023.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies a 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake  Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-020.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds Ulaan Tolgoi near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-012.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  Patterns are probably shamanistic symbols.<br />
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    MGe 060630-005.jpg
  • Mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-002.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-035.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
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    MGe 060629-033.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-032.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-021.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-019.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-012.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-005.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-044.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-043.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.
    MGe 060628-042.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-035.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  <br />
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MS0702_060628_0487.NEF
    MGe 060628-031.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  <br />
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MS0702_060628_0435.NEF
    MGe 060628-025.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-020.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  <br />
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MS0702_060628_0415.NEF
    MGe 060628-015.jpg
  • A 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-014.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan ("Bayaraa") unearths ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia., Mongolia., Mongolia.  A deer stone of similar age is in the background.
    MGe 060626-009.jpg
  • A 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hill called Ulaan Tolgoi ("Red Hill"), near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-005.jpg
  • A 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hill called Ulaan Tolgoi ("Red Hill"), near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-004.jpg
  • 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Moron, Mongolia.  A "khirigsuur" burial mound of similar age is in the background.
    MGe 060626-003.jpg
  • A Mountain Goat bas-relief decorates a banister pole in White Salmon Lodge at Washington's Mount Baker Ski Area.
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  • Visitors wander through ruins of Sacsayhuamán, an extensive Inca ruin near Cuzco, Peru, where one of their last great battles against Pizzaro and the Spanish conquistadors occurred.
    PT 4446.jpg
  • Visitors wander through ruins of Sacsayhuamán, an extensive Inca ruin near Cuzco, Peru, where one of their last great battles against Pizzaro and the Spanish conquistadors occurred.
    PT 4442.jpg
  • Huge, intricately hewn stone blocks at Sacsayhuamán, an massive Inca ruin near Cuzco, Peru, that was the site of one of their last decisive battles with Pizzaro and the Spanish conquistadors.
    PT 4423.jpg
  • A traveler walks by huge, intricately hewn stone blocks at Sacsayhuamán, an Inca ruin near Cuzco, Peru, that was the site of one of their last decisive battles with Pizzaro and the Spanish conquistadors.
    PT 4422.jpg
  • PERU. PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. Pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) "nail stone" sculpture at previously undiscovered city in the upper Amazon cloud forests. (Found in 1999).
    PE 3414.jpg
  • Tourists walk past "The Treasury," a signature feature of Petra, a World Heritage Site in Jordan.
    JD 0511.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in foreground (from same era).<br />
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MS0702_060701_0112.NEF
    MGe 060701-032.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in foreground (from same era).<br />
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MS0702_060701_0017.NEF
    MGe 060701-030.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-025.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia. The patterns probably depict a shamanistic breast plate.
    MGe 060630-003.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
  <br />
MS0702_060629_0340.NEF
    MGe 060629-016.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound above Delger River, near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-047.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site beside sheep corrals near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060701-011.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-004.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-030.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
  <br />
MS0702_060629_0252.NEF
    MGe 060629-001.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist and carvings of buddhas and saints prayers are carved on rocks - even a yak skull - in a Mani wall in southeastern Tibet, China. (“Mani” is from the prayer “Om mani padme hung,” (Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus.)
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  • Tibetan Buddhist and carvings of buddhas and saints prayers are carved on rocks - even a yak skull - in a Mani wall in southeastern Tibet, China. (“Mani” is from the prayer “Om mani padme hung,” (Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus.)
    TS 3978.jpg
  • Intricate carvings and a window punctuate the log wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-040.jpg
  • Ornately carved struts adorm a pagoda temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1959.jpg
  • Ornately carved struts adorm a pagoda temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1956.jpg
  • Ornately carved struts adorm a pagoda temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1952.jpg
  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Wood carvings of Buddha on temple door in Durbar Square.
    KM 1927.jpg
  • Ornately carved struts adorm a pagoda temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1910.jpg
  • Women and a baby stand in an ornately carved doorway in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.
    KM 0202.jpg
  • A horse cart driver and his friend talk at the opening of the Siq, an immense slot canyon leading to the mysterious, carved city of Petra, Jordan.  Behind is part of "The Treasury" building.
    JD 0274.jpg
  • Travelers admire a reconstructed circular house at Kuelap, an ancient stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture that dominated northern Peru about 600 years ago.
    PE 4447.jpg
  • A reconstructed circular house at Kuelap, in northern Peru's Cordillera Central, hints at the lifestyle in this ancient stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
    PE 1615.jpg
  • A traveler in Peru's Cordillera Central passes a reconstructed circular house at Kuelap, an ancient stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
    PE 1622.jpg
  • A pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) nail stone sculpture.
    PE 3403.jpg
  • Ornate sculptures and paintings & a singh lion protect the main door to Hanuman Dhoka Palace in  the Durbar Square temple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1947.jpg
  • A guard stands restricts access only to Hindus at Hanuman Dhoka Palace in the  the Durbar Squaretemple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1940.jpg
  • A guard restricts access only to Hindus at Hanuman Dhoka Palace in the  the Durbar Squaretemple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 0725.jpg
  • A guard stands restricts access only to Hindus at Hanuman Dhoka Palace in the  the Durbar Squaretemple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1940.jpg
  • A guard stands restricts access only to Hindus at Hanuman Dhoka Palace in the  the Durbar Squaretemple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1940.jpg
  • A tour guide in the Plaza de Armas admires an old, bronze map of downtown Santiago
    CHe 080208-013.jpg
  • Children stand outside a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
    KM 1936.jpg
  • Nabataean petroglyphs decorate a sandstone cliff in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
    JD 1935.jpg
  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Wood carving in ancient temple near Hanuman Dhoka Temple, Durbar Square.
    KM 1918.jpg
  • A mason carves Tibetan Buddhist prayers into a "mani" rock in the Khumbu region of Nepal 1986.
    KF 0133.jpg
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