The fort at Najran. ... Alfred Maudslay

The fort at Najran. ... Alfred MaudslayThe fort at Najran. 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.

The photograph shows the north face of a carved stone zoomorph known by archaeologists as Zoomorph P

in the region between Khasfah well and Matki well

In the far distance low rolling downs rise into high dunes

This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's week and a half long sailing trip around the Abu Dhabi Islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a salt flat in Al Batin sands

Just beyond one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions walks with his camel across the sand

Another three men and a boy sit in front of the tent

He is smiling

In the foreground one man stands in the tide holding a small rowboat

a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides

grow in rows in the sand

The second man in the well stands to Mahalhal bin 'Ati's right