Heritage & Culture

An Egyptologist retells the myth of Osiris, Isis and Horus, the story that made Abydos the most sacred place in ancient Egypt.

An Egyptologist looks past the famous monuments to the beliefs, layered civilizations, landscapes and people that make Egypt a living country.

Why Nairobi deserves a night of its own: the hotels, railway, museums and national park that tell the story of Kenya before the safari begins.

Ghana and Senegal are where roots tourism is most developed. What each one offers, how the two differ, and what to read before booking either journey.

99 heritage guides across 20 African countries, with what UNESCO World Heritage inscription means and what it does not tell a visitor.

Twenty African countries covered for travelers returning to the continent: what the journey asks, which sites hold the history, and what each has built for it.

Seychellois food is a Creole kitchen built on an ocean and a plantation economy, and its clearest expression is a fish market in Victoria.

Seychelles is on the Indian Ocean slave route, not the Atlantic one, and it has a mountain school built for the children of liberated Africans.

Seychelles had no indigenous population, so everything here was carried in. Its Creole culture is what the people brought and what survived.

The first island of the group ever sighted, in 1609, and one whose heritage case rests on Creole tradition as much as on its wildlife.

A school built in 1876 for the children of liberated Africans, high on a mountain on Mahé, and a stop on the Indian Ocean slave route.

Four coral islands around a lagoon, so hard to reach that they were never spoiled. Some 152,000 giant tortoises live there, the world's largest population.