Around Herat, western Afghanistan
The Musalla Complex in a field outside Herat, four broken minarets, all that remains of a Gowhar Shad's Madrassa, an Islamic religious school near Herat, dating from 1417 and destroyed by the British in 1834. Tents of Kuchi nomads are perched nearby.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Thu Nov 01, 1973