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The Aegean Thread

Island hop from Athens through the Cyclades with a historian who argues back.

Gadir and the Atlantic Edge

Cadiz, Seville and the sherry coast, as far west as the ships were willing to go.

Lebanon

The Purple Coast

Byblos to Sidon with the last dye masters and the harbours that started it all.

Lebanon

Where the alphabet went to sea.

Greece

Myth, marble, and the islands that argued back.

Spain

The Atlantic edge the ships were willing to reach.

France

Where Greek founders met Levantine cargo.

Lebanon

Glass, Before It Was Clear

The Sidon workshops, and why the first glassmakers were not trying to see through anything.

Spain

Reading a Harbour That Is Now a Field

What survives of a Phoenician port after the water has moved on without it.

Lebanon

The Last Murex Dyers of Tyre

One family still works the shellfish beds that once coloured the robes of emperors.