tinamanley > PERU, MACHU PICCHU:  Rock steps and ancient Inca stone walls in Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It was built around 1460 AD but was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
tinamanley > GUATEMALA, ZACALEU:  Young Mam girl in traditional dress running with her classmates through the reconstructed Mayan ruins of Zacaleu.  Indigenous people are allowed in the ruins, which were reconstructed by the United Fruit Company, at no charge.
tinamanley > IRAN, ARAK:  Beautiful brick vents in the domed ceiling of the souk, the ancient marketplace in Arak, Iran.  Archive collection, 1970's.
tinamanley > IRAN, ARAK:  Young Iranian boys carrying a jug of milk through the souk in Arak, Iran, under ancient vaulted brick domes.  Archive collection, 1970's.
tinamanley > CHINA, Chuandixia: Traditional stone farmhouse remodeled into a store in the rural ancient mountain village of Chuandixia in autumn.
tinamanley > CHINA, Chuandixia: Traditional stone farmhouses in the rural ancient mountain village of Chuandixia in autumn with mountains in the distance hidden by the haze of air pollution from Beijing.  Sayings from the Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) era in Mandarin Chinese are preserved on the sides of the buildings.
tinamanley > CHINA, Chuandixia: Traditional stone farmhouses in the rural ancient mountain village of Chuandixia in autumn with mountains in the distance hidden by the haze of air pollution from Beijing.  Sayings from the Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) era in Mandarin Chinese are preserved on the sides of the buildings.
tinamanley > CHINA, Chuandixia: Traditional stone farmhouses in the rural ancient mountain village of Chuandixia in autumn with mountains in the distance hidden by the haze of air pollution from Beijing.  Sayings from the Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) era in Mandarin Chinese are preserved on the sides of the buildings.
tinamanley > CHINA, Chuandixia: Traditional stone farmhouses in the rural ancient mountain village of Chuandixia in autumn with mountains in the distance hidden by the haze of air pollution from Beijing.  Sayings from the Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) era in Mandarin Chinese are preserved on the sides of the buildings.
PERU, MACHU PICCHU: Rock steps and ancient Inca stone walls in Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It was built around 1460 AD but was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
tinamanley > PERU, MACHU PICCHU:  Rock steps and ancient Inca stone walls in Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It was built around 1460 AD but was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
PERU, MACHU PICCHU: Rock steps and ancient Inca stone walls in Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It was built around 1460 AD but was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
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