Focus on Archaeology
Hili — Bronze Age settlement in Abu Dhabi
Late one February afternoon in 2018, my husband, Paul, and I arrived at Hili, an archaeological site 6 miles north of the oasis city of Al Ain in Abu Dhabi.
On the frankincense route in Oman
The city of Salalah lies on the southern coast of Oman beside the Arabian Sea, about 600 miles southwest of Muscat, the country's capital.
An Egyptian temple in Madrid
In October 2017, my husband, Paul, and I rented an apartment in the iconic Plaza Mayor in the oldest section of Madrid.
Halifax and the Titanic
Ask anyone what the greatest disaster at sea is that they can think of and almost invariably the answer will be “the sinking of the Titanic.”
Vikings in the Americas
He is generally credited with being the first European to “discover” the New World. If you think that the “he” is Christopher Columbus, think again.
Totem poles of the Canadian Northwest Coast
Totem poles are the monumental masterpieces of the Pacific Northwest. They are scattered over an area that includes the province of British Columbia in western Canada along with Washington and Oregon states in the northwestern corner of the continental United States plus southeastern Alaska.
Back to Torcello
On almost every one of my many trips to Venice, Italy, over the years, I have been drawn to the small island of Torcello.
Venice — world’s first Ghetto
2016 marked the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Ghetto in Venice, the first ghetto in the world.
Île d’Orléans — French settlement in the New World
Seventy-three years before Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Québec in eastern Canada, another Frenchman, Jacques Cartier, sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1535.
Across the ages — expedition into the Qatari Desert
It is not often that you have the opportunity to experience 5,000 years of archaeology in just eight hours. In March 2016, my husband, Paul, and I visited Qatar, a small country roughly the size of Connecticut that juts out into the Persian Gulf. It shares a land border only with Saudi Arabia to the south.