28 city guides · 3-day history itineraries
3-day city guides centred on historical sites, monuments, old quarters and untold stories.
From 4,500-year-old Umm an-Nar burial chambers at Hili to the memorial monuments of the union, traci…
Mamluk hospitals, a Byzantine cathedral hidden inside a madrasa, Ottoman merchant mansions and the l…
From Bronze Age citadel walls and a 2nd-century Roman forum to Circassian mosques, royal automobiles…
From Sumerian gold and Abbasid madrasas to Ottoman caravanserais, Saddam-era monuments and the shrin…
Rock-hewn monasteries in the Holy Valley, the printing press that changed the Arab world, and the mo…
Roman baths under the banks, Phoenician quarries beneath a hotel car park, Ottoman souk arcades and …
Roman city walls, an Ayyubid fortress on flat ground, Sinan's pilgrim complex and the graves of Sala…
Mud-brick forts, pearl-diving heritage, Ottoman-era garrisons and the archaeology of Qatar's Bronze …
Coral-block houses, a 1787 fort, Bronze Age tombs and the pearling economy that built Dubai before t…
Pharaonic mining camps, a biblical Red Sea port, and the frontier monuments where three of Israel's …
Phoenician dye vats, Elijah's grotto, Ottoman quarters and the ships that ran the British blockade —…
Twelve centuries of Persian building, from an Abbasid prayer hall and a Sassanid fire altar to the d…
Coral-stone tower houses, Ottoman mosques, the vanished city wall and the palace of King Abdulaziz.…
Temple Mount, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Yad Vashem and the most contested city in history…
From Bronze Age Failaka and a Nestorian monastery to pearling dhows, city-wall gates and the museums…
Bronze Age sanctuaries, coral-stone forts, merchant majlises and the wellhead that opened the Gulf's…
From the 9th-century burial place of Imam Reza to Nader Shah's tomb, Timurid tilework in Tus and the…
Quraysh burial grounds, hijra caves, an Abbasid aqueduct and salvaged Kaaba fittings — the layers be…
Trace 1,400 years of Medina's past — from the volcanic battlefield of Uhud and the Seven Mosques rid…
Portuguese watchtowers, Ya'aruba imams and the Al Bu Said dynasty traced through Muscat's forts, mus…
From the 18th-century ruins of At-Turaif to the 1938 palace where oil-era Saudi Arabia was governed,…
Two UNESCO harbours, a Rasulid-era mosque field, the sultans' palace quarter and the caravan road th…
Gates, citadels, caravanserais, museums and abandoned rock villages tracing 2,500 years of highland …
From the 1820 Qawasim palace and the coral-stone houses of Al Mureijah to the Bronze Age tombs of Ml…
From Darius I's burned ceremonial capital to Karim Khan's citadel and the mudbrick lanes of the old …
Iron Age graves, a collapsed Mongol-era mausoleum, Constitutionalist safe houses and the courtyard m…
Golestan Palace UNESCO site, 7,000 years at the National Museum and the world's largest pink diamond…
Bronze Age ramparts in Jaffa, Ottoman khans and Templer colonies, the room where Israel was declared…