At Kerkouane in Tunisia, you crunch as you walk. Not gravel. Shells. Purple murex shells — thousands of them — ground into the earth beneath your feet. This is what’s left of an industry that built an empire. The Phoenicians weren’t here for conquest. They were here for color. Most people have never heard of...Read More
Three mud-brick forts rise out of the Kyzylkum Desert, two hundred kilometers from the nearest city. They are called the Qalas. They were built over two thousand years ago to guard the trade routes that would eventually become the Silk Road. You have almost certainly never heard of them. We walked through them on a...Read More
On what Rome destroyed, what it could not erase, and the history that only becomes visible when you drive between the fragments with someone who has spent her career in the ruins. By Mary Collins | April 2026 Most ancient ruins stand in one place and wait for you to arrive. Carthage doesn’t work that...Read More
A post-trip interview on Ethiopia with tour managers, Kelly Bryson and Heather Stoeckley Welcome to this post-trip interview with the tour managers behind our Ethiopia Tour: The Wonders of the Horn of Africa. Our experiences often last over two weeks and can be a large investment in both time and money, which is why we...Read More
Herodotus said it 2,500 years ago: “Egypt is the gift of the Nile” – and what a gift it is – a narrow strip of cultivatable land teased from the barren expanse of desert that is home to one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known. From the Sudan to the Mediterranean, the...Read More
