Category Archive: Archaeology/History

“Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. It's ... Read More

Crete, the largest of the Greek islands and a place very close to my heart, has appeared on Peter Sommer Travels' blog before. Of course it has: Exploring Crete, the ... Read More

As promised in the newsletter, here are some things to make any time you have to be isolated more interesting and more rewarding. We hope you'll discover wonders you didn't ... Read More

Gods in Color - Golden Edition awaits you in Frankfurt and it's worth adapting your travel plans for it! A defeated boxer, seated in a tired and dejected pose, his ... Read More

Pyramids in Anatolian Caria? Yes, it sounds a bit strange… yet they do exist! Of course, apart from their funerary connection, these have nothing to do with the Egyptian ones. ... Read More

I was on Thasos a few weeks ago (for the first time in a while), and it struck me just what an extraordinary place it is! Thasos (sometimes spelt Thassos) ... Read More

The city of Lydae, one of the westernmost of the Lycian region, is still a riddle for most scholars. Located in the middle of a peninsula, in a basin surrounded ... Read More

Putting on an exhibition about Troy and the Trojan War carries a particular weight of expectation. It’s at the centre of everything for so many of us: archaeologists, ancient historians, ... Read More

Dubrovnik, the 'Pearl of the Adriatic', is justly seen by most as an absolutely unmissable site for those travelling along the coast of Croatia and looking for the region's history ... Read More

This is the final, seventh, part of our series about the 2020 Peter Sommer Travels brochure. The printed version of the brochure was posted to our our guests and friends ... Read More

Have you noticed that Christmas is approaching? I can tell even by just going online: the ads that are being pushed my way are now supposed to be festive, and ... Read More

  London and the Thames go inseparably hand-in-hand. The city originates in large part because of the river, and traffic along it has given it life since its beginning. As ... Read More

“Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. We're ... Read More

“Exploring Ireland” is Peter Sommer Travels’ first Irish itinerary, a cultural and archaeological tour of Ireland running only for the second time in 2019. Once again, we are offering a ... Read More