Wadi Baysh in flood in ... Africa 2

Wadi Baysh in flood in ... Africa 2Wadi Baysh in flood in the foothills near Jibal ar Rayth. 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.

stupa/mandala

In the background two stone buildings border sit behind the square

View of a sand flat between dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

In the background tufts of vegetation grow on a vast flat plain that stretches into the far distance

lead camels on foot through the dunes

An Arab man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stand in the central foreground in front of three saddled camels

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding camels in the Ghanim Sands

holding a saker (hurr) falcon in the sands surrounding Al Ain

The press consists of a large mortar in which a pestle is rotated

with a blanket hanging and crops drying on a wall behind them

an older Arab man with a grey beard

the carving is now understood by scholars to represent a supernatural crocodilian