Visiting Giza: The Last Standing Wonder
The Great Pyramid is the only Ancient Wonder still standing. Visit Giza, Egypt to see why, and what recent digs reveal about who really built it.
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Visiting Luxor: The City of Life and Death
Luxor split ancient Egypt into two cities, one for the living and one for the dead. Explore Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, and Hatshepsut's temple.
Visiting Great Zimbabwe: The Ruins Colonialism Denied
Visiting Great Zimbabwe: how a medieval African trading capital became the centre of a decades long colonial lie, and what the ruins reveal today.
Visiting Kolmanskop: Namibia’s Diamond Ghost Town
In 1908 a railway worker found a diamond in the Namib sand. Within decades, the boomtown built on it was abandoned to the desert.
Visiting Robben Island: Nelson Mandela’s Prison
Visiting Robben Island: how a place built for 400 years to isolate the unwanted became the site where Nelson Mandela and South Africa's democracy took shape."