Images Dated 2005 September

Statue of Fray Diego de Landa, Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico

Statue of Fray Diego de Landa, Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico
Bicycler rounds the statue of Fray Diego de Landa, builder of the Monastery
of St. Anthony of Padua in the Spanish colonial town of Izamal

© John Coletti

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A man working in the tanneries in Old Fez, Morocco

A man working in the tanneries in Old Fez, Morocco. In the white pits, animal hides are soaked for a week in lime and bird droppings to bleach the skin and remove the hair. The skins are then moved to the brown pits where they are coloured using natural dyes

© Julian Love/John Warburton-Lee Photography Ltd

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Afghanistan, Mazar-I-Sharif, Shrine of Hazrat Ali

Afghanistan, Mazar-I-Sharif, Shrine of Hazrat Ali
AFGHANISTAN, Mazar-I-Sharif, Pilgrims at the Shrine of Hazrat Ali (who was assissinated in 661)
This shrine was built here in 1136 on the orders of Seljuk Sultan Sanjar, destroyed by Genghis Kha

© Jane Sweeney

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