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  • The ornate interior of the Cathedral Church of Lima, Peru includes dazzling artwork and sculpture.
    PEe 091106-176-2.jpg
  • Sculpture of Maitreya, the Future Buddha at monastery near Leh.
    LK 1210.jpg
  • Modern architecture and sculpture display wealth in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru.
    PEe 091106-285-2.jpg
  • The ornate interior of the Cathedral Church of Lima, Peru includes dazzling artwork and sculpture.
    PEe 091106-144-2.jpg
  • Montana state capitol building and sculpture honoring Montana hero Thomas Meagher in Helena, Montana.
    Mte 080624-042.jpg
  • Montana state capitol building and sculpture honoring Montana hero Thomas Meagher in Helena, Montana.
    Mte 080624-020.jpg
  • Montana state capitol building and sculpture honoring Montana hero Thomas Meagher in Helena, Montana.
    Mte 080624-015.jpg
  • The dramatic Calvary Sculpture dominates the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial near the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-050.jpg
  • The dramatic Calvary Sculpture dominates the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial near the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-046e.jpg
  • The dramatic Calvary Sculpture dominates the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial near the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-043.jpg
  • A sculpture by Robert I. Aitken called "The Past is Prologue" stands outside the National Archives in Washington, DC.
    DCe 080328-004-2.jpg
  • A sculpture by Robert I. Aitken called "Study the Past" stands outside the National Archives in Washington, DC.
    DCe 080328-002-2.jpg
  • A vistor touches the toe of a sculpture of a Patagonian Indian in the plaza of Punta Arenas, Chile.  This is supposed to ensure one's return to Patagonia.
    CHe 081025-097.jpg
  • A sculpture of a Patagonian Indian sits atop a bas relief of Magellan's ships in the plaza of Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 081025-088.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
  • A pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) nail stone sculpture.
    PE 3403.jpg
  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Hindu sculpture of Shiva at Pashupatinath Temple
    KM 0528b.jpg
  • Ornate artwork and gilt sculpture decorates Saint Nicholas Church in Iscghl, Austria.
    EU 2548.jpg
  • Montana state capitol building and sculpture honoring Montana hero Thomas Meagher in Helena, Montana.
    Mte 080624-026.jpg
  • Montana state capitol building and sculpture honoring Montana hero Thomas Meagher in Helena, Montana.
    Mte 080624-013.jpg
  • The dramatic Calvary Sculpture dominates the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial near the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-046.jpg
  • Sculpture of wrathful protective deity.
    LK 1211.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie stands beside ice sculptures created by British artist Andy Goldsworthy, for whom Gordon was the polar guide.
    NP 1267.jpg
  • Sculptures decorate a park surrounding the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
    NYe 080113-056.jpg
  • Sculptures of Patagonian Indians below a famous statue of Magellan in Plaza Muñoz Gamero, Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 080202-381.jpg
  • Sculptures of Patagonian Indians below a famous statue of Magellan in Plaza Muñoz Gamero, Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 080202-377.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Potala palace, former home of Dalai Lama, viewed from Jokhang Temple (holiest in Tibet), where gilt sculptures adorn the roof. Photo from 1986. Today modern Chinese buildings clutter the view.
    CF 0626.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist monk & pilgrim beneath sculptures of Bodhisattvas at Palkhor Monastery, Gyantse.
    CF 2643.jpg
  • The U.S. Capitol building rises behind the Grant Memorial and Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-023.jpg
  • 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
  • A fountain sits in the plaza by the Convent of San Francisco in Lima, Peru - where its catacombs were the site of mass burials.
    PEe 091106-231-2.jpg
  • PEe 091106-207-2.jpg
  • A sign warns against illegally entering a park surrounding the United Nations Building in New York City.
    NYe 080113-073.jpg
  • A statue of Lenin stands in front of the Soviet-era Ulaanbaatar Hotel in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-067.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-061.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-056.jpg
  • Gilt toes on a 26.5-meter-high statue of Migjid Janraisig (Avalokitesvara) at Ganden Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-053.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-044.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-038.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-030.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-069.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-067.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-062.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-059.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-058.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 060701-029.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 060701-021.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
  • 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
  • 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 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_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 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 />
MS0702_060626_0161.NEF
    MGe 060626-015.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, Bronze Age deer stones at Ushkin Uver site near Muren, Mongolia
    MGe 060625-004.jpg
  • Stone painting at Ganden Monastery in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.
    MGe 060624-042.jpg
  • A protective "singha" lion outside Choijinlam Temple, a rare, remaining Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia. During the country's Soviet occupation, religion was discouraged and thousands of monks and lamas were executed.  The religion is making a resurgence after independence.
    MGe 060624-036.jpg
  • Wrathful & protective deities in Choijinlam Temple, a rare, remaining Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.  During the country's Soviet occupation, religion was discouraged and thousands of monks and lamas were executed.  The religion is making a resurgence after independence.
    MGe 060624-011.jpg
  • Tourists visit Cape Horn Memorial, designed in the shape of an albatross by Chilean sculptor José Balcells to commemorate sailors rounding tip of South America.
    CHe 080131-037.jpg
  • Musicians play outside the entance to the extravagant Catherine's Palace at Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), near Saint Petersburg, Russia.
    ST 5904.jpg
  • A garden statue of the Madonna seems to join American Sikhs in a morning prayer vigil outside a temple near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    NM 0557.jpg
  • A Hindu shrine stands beside a trail in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal.
    L 0075.jpg
  • A hiker examines a Nabataean temple frieze atop Umm al Biyara peak above Petra, Jordan.  (MR)
    JD 0630.jpg
  • Tourists walk past "The Treasury," a signature feature of Petra, a World Heritage Site in Jordan.
    JD 0511.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Tibetan Buddhist devotees pray and make yak butter offerings at chapel inside Jokhang Temple, holiest site in Tibet.
    CF 1009.jpg
  • A statue of Vladamir Lenin stands in front of an office building in the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Arctic Ocean.
    RUe 070426-007.jpg
  • A mosaic mural dominates the Tomb of Francisco Pizarro in the Cathedral Church of Lima, Peru.
    PEe 091106-137-2.jpg
  • The Cathedral Church and a fountain in the main plaza of Lima, Peru.
    PEe 091106-106.jpg
  • A Mongolian soldier guards the national Parliament Building in Ulaanbaatar, standing between huge bronze scuptures of Genghis Khan and one of his mounted soldiers.
    MGe 080720-059.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist worshippers pray before a 26.5-meter-high statue of Migjid Janraisig (Avalokitesvara) at Ganden Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Dalai Lame is believed to be a reincarnation of this deity.
    MGe 080719-072.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-063.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-058.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-048.jpg
  • A young monk peeks from a temple at Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-039.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-028.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-026.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-020.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-019.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-011.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-064.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-061.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-060.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-055.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-054.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-052.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 060701-033.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 060701-025.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
  • 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 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 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds Ulaan Tolgoi near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-011.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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MS0702_060630_0117.NEF
    MGe 060630-005.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 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
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