View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:large

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's party crossing rolling sands during their journey from Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). Scattered trees, bushes and other vegetation grow in the sand. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

and on the right a man walks in front of a tent

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels through the Jiddat al Harasis during the party's journey from Boi well to Yisub well

Sulaiman bin Hamyiar is a sheikh of the Bani Riyam tribe which occupies the region surrounding Jabal Akhdar

with a boy standing in the foreground

Behind the tumulus a vast empty flat stretches out uninterrupted to the far horizon

a sailor on board a dhow

Tall multi-storey buildings fill the city behind the city wall

and beaded and metal jewellery around his neck and arms

Group of Lhasa mummers

Portrait of two boys of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting on the ground in the Raydat as Say'ar

View of Wilfred Thesiger's expedition party setting out from the Awash Station at the start of his 1933-4 Awash expedition

as it was first described by Alfred Maudslay in his seminal publication of the Quirigua site in his multi-volume Archaeology (1889-1902)