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10 great destinations lost to modern travellers
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThere are many reasons to read Fyodor Dosdoevsky’s masterpiece Crime and Punishment – but one is its compelling picture of St Petersburg in the mid-19th...
One fifth of the world is now too dangerous to visit
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFive years ago, a British globetrotter’s travel wishlist might have included the cultural wonders of St Petersburg and the cosy cafes of Lviv. The...
Never mind Cleopatra – what about the forgotten queens of ancient Nubia?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 12 months agoJewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe. Einsamer Schütze/Wikimedia Commons, CC...
Sudan's cultural heritage in peril as fighting rages
Reuters via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn Sudan's capital, precious books in a major library have been burned and the national museum has been cut off for weeks by fighting. In Darfur, another museum is at risk from seasonal rains ...
‘I could buy spices, a goat or a Kalashnikov’: Readers recall trips to places now off-limits
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoOur recent feature on places now deemed off-limits by the Foreign Office (“10 great destinations...