The 2017 <n>Mount Agung</n> eruption through the <n>Gates of Heaven</n> at <n>Lempuyang Temple</n>. Photo by <n>Amro Helmy</n>.

<n>Besakih Temple</n> on Bali's Mount Agung, from <n>John Gaisord</n>'s book <n>Atlas of Man</n> (1978).

A <n>three-headed deity</n> from <n>Angkor</n>, Cambodia, from the book <n>Lost Cities of Asia</n> by <n>Wim Swaan</n>, 1966.

The <n>Aukana Buddha</n> statue in Sri Lanka, photographed by <n>Raghubir Singh</n> in 1979.

The <n>Church of Saint George</n> in Lalibela, Ethiopia, carved from a single block of rock in the 12th c.

Sunlight in the <n>Inner sanctuary of Amon-Ra, Temple of Karnak</n> in Luxor, Egypt.

A beam of light inside the <n>Karnak Temple</n> in Luxor, Egypt. Photo by <n>Jordan Hoggard</n>.

The <n>Grand Mosque of Agadez</n> in Niger. Photo by <n>António Mesquita</n>.

Women of the <n>Harb tribe</n> in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, 1971.

The colour and romance of Rajasthan, Land of the Kings

An <n>Ethiopian Orthodox priest</n> reads in a church in <n>Lalibela</n>, Ethiopia. Photo by <n>Natalia Stone</n>.

<n>Colossal faces of Bayon</n> at <n>Angkor Thom</n>, c. 1200. Photo by <n>Jacques Arthaud</n>.

Monks in Siam, 1953. Photo by <n>Jean-Philippe Charbonnier</n>.

<n>Zen</n>, a 1969 photograph from the <n>Japanesque</n> series by <n>Ikko Narahara</n>.

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