Before the voyage, the record
What the page kept
What the stone remembers
Five shores, one civilisation
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Before the voyage, the record
What the page kept
What the stone remembers
Five shores, one civilisation
Small group cultural travel
The Mediterranean, shown to you by the people who live there
Al Tourath runs small journeys along the coast that shaped the western world. You travel with an archaeologist, a cook or a craftsman, not a coach and a microphone.
- Shores open now
- 4
- Journeys running
- 12
- Group size
- Up to 14
- Based in
- Beirut
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All journeysThe Aegean Thread
Island hop from Athens through the Cyclades with a historian who argues back.
A few spaces leftThe Aegean Thread
Island hop from Athens through the Cyclades with a historian who argues back.
A few spaces leftGadir and the Atlantic Edge
Cadiz, Seville and the sherry coast, as far west as the ships were willing to go.
From the journal
Read the journalGlass, Before It Was Clear
The Sidon workshops, and why the first glassmakers were not trying to see through anything.
Reading a Harbour That Is Now a Field
What survives of a Phoenician port after the water has moved on without it.
The Last Murex Dyers of Tyre
One family still works the shellfish beds that once coloured the robes of emperors.
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