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AIA Tours: Response to COVID-19

Dear AIA travelers, We enjoy reaching out to you each month with exciting news about new AIA land tours and small-ship cruises, but this month the topic looming large, over […]

AIA Tours: Jungle Kingdoms of the Ancient Maya

One of the peak experiences on the AIA’s Jungle Kingdoms of the Ancient Maya tour last month was returning to Copán, where I worked with archaeologists William Fash, Jr. and […]

AIA Tours: Human Origins in South Africa

In September, an AIA Tours group visited South Africa, one of the most important places in the world for our understanding of how human beings evolved.

AIA Tours: Hiking Scotland’s Orkney & Shetland Islands

AIA visitors joined lecturer Mary MacLeod Rivett and local staff for a 10-day trip to Orkney and Shetland, the northern isles of Scotland, in August 2018.

AIA Tours: Hiking Scotland’s Inner & Outer Hebrides

Dun Eistein

AIA Tours: Cruising the Baltic Sea

Our June 2018 voyage in the Baltic, which began in Stockholm and ended in Copenhagen stopped at many notable cities around the Baltic Sea.

AIA Tours: Cruising the Scottish Isles & Norwegian Fjords

There are many highlights on a tour such as Scottish Isles & Norwegian Fjords, including UNESCO designated sites in Norway, such as the Bryggens waterfront and also the Fjordland. A personal favourite has to be the colourful and vibrant waterfront of the Bryggen area, developed by the Hanseatic merchants from North Germany and whose closed community focussed on the monopoly they held of the fish trade.

AIA Tours: Letter from Iran

The Dolat Abad Garden, Yazd. © Andrew Moore

AIA Tours: Behind the scenes in France and Spain

Henry de Lumley (right), Ian Tattersall (left), and the Arago 21 skull. Photo by Karen Raab

AIA Tours: Highlights of Morocco: From the Desert to the Sea, October 2016

What a wonderful experience and opportunity leading this AIA tour was! Morocco is a magnificent country in which to see the whole sweep of history, from the villages of indigenous […]

AIA Tours: Circumnavigating the Black Sea, fall 2016

Modern Myth-Making

AIA Tours: Hiking Scotland’s Orkney & Shetland Islands, July 2016

The AIA hiking trip to Orkney and Shetland is articulated by ferry trips, giving a real feel for island life. Ferries of all sizes link the islands to the mainland […]

AIA TOURS’ “Japan by Sea” cruise, spring 2016

The 14th-15th century Noh playwright Zeami Motokiyo famously wrote: To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of […]

AIA TOURS’ “In the Wake of the Vikings” cruise, Glasgow to Copenhagen, June 2016

We passed through some stunning landscapes during the AIA-sponsored “In the Wake of the Vikings” voyage, and Shetland certainly ranked high on the list. This year, the sun was shining […]

AIA Tours’ “Israel: Treasures of the Holy Land” Program, May 2016

Tour leader Jodi Magness recounts visiting the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.

AIA Tours: In the Wake of the Vikings cruise, Glasgow to Copenhagen May/June 2015

Although the focus of the tour was the route taken by the Vikings around Scotland and into Scandinavia, we took a detour from the Viking Age into the Neolithic thanks […]

AIA Tours: Hiking Scotland’s Orkney & Shetland Islands – The Shetlands, Days 7-9

AIA Tours travelers on St. Ninian’s Isle, Shetland Islands.

AIA Tours: Hiking Scotland’s Orkney & Shetland Islands – Days 4 – 6

Follow along with the AIA Tours group hiking Scotland’s northern isles, in the company of archaeologist Mary MacLeod Rivett.

AIA Tours: Hiking Scotland’s Orkney & Shetland Islands – The Orkneys, Days 1-3