photo set

 Uighur

 Chiang Kai-shek and wife

 Sun Yat-sen

 electrum pieces, Royal Tomb at Ur

 Josie Grant:  8 Immortals mural in SF Chinatown

 -archeologic work in pursuit of Hannibal's crossing-route into Italy; artists on same (below)

 light at end of tunnel

 blazing star

 egret

inside an Egyptian pyramid