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  • Queen Hatshepsut dancing before a representation of Min
  • Helwan, Egypt; farm cultivation
  • Temple dedicated to Imhotep at Philae
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Nepal; village well, Rapti Valley, Terai, 1986
  • Helwan, Egypt; water buffalo
  • Nepal; shops, Kathmandu, 1986
  • Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
  • Temple offering trussed game and vessels for possibly milk
  • Helwan, Egypt; farm cultivation
  • Mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (reigned 1498-1483 BCE, dynasty XVIII), Deir el-Bahri, Thebes. The temple is a partly rock-cut and partly free-standing terraced structure. during the Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE - CE 395) the temple became a centre for healing and the upper terrace was consecrated to Imhotep. Numerous graffiti are evidence of the large number of invalids who visited it until the second century CE.
  • Nepal; travelling butcher in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpas buying yak meat from butcher, near Lukla (altitude 2827 metres). Meat is not generally eaten by Sherpas who are Buddhists, adhering to the oldest, unreformed sect of Tibetan Buddhism known as Kar-gyud-pa. Buddhists make up about 5.3% of Nepal's population whilst 89.5% are Hindu. The cultural heritage of the Sherpas, however, has always remained with Tibet.
  • Nepal; washing clothes in the Baghmati river, 1986
  • Step Pyramid at Saqqare, Egypt
  • El-Amarna, Egypt; washing pots and pans in the Nile
  • Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
  • Trajan, dressed as a pharaoh, offering to Hathor, wall relief
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, Bhaktapur, 1986
  • Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.
  • Min, Egyptian god of fertility, wall relief
  • Goddess Hathorfeeding her son Ihy, wall relief
  • Helwan, Egypt; traditional Egyptian waterwheel. As N0022540C but position of water wheel is slightly better. Photographed January 1990.
  • Egyptian carving, achondroplasia taken in 1989
  • Egyptian carving of dwarf demon Bes, taken 1989
  • Nepal; bridge over river in the Khumbu, 1986
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, children of Bhaktapur, 1986. Three children stand in Durbar Square. The little boy has genu valgum (knock knees). In the mid-1980s, nearly half of all Nepalese children died before reaching the age of 5, and life expectancy at birth was 51 years for men and 50 years for women. Conditions associated with poor hygiene and sanitation, including gastrointestinal disorders, diarrhoea, and parasitic infestation, were common.
  • Goddess Hathor feeding her son Ihy, wall relief
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Nepal; Sherpa children at a water pipe, 1986
  • Head grooming, 1890's, Egypt