National Geographic - USA (2021-11)

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Salopek walked through Jordan in 2014. At the time, Mohammad, then 11, one of hundreds of thousands of Syrian civil war refugees ...

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NO ONE KNOWS PRECISELY WHY, AFTER KNOCKING ABOUT AFRICA FOR ROUGHLY 240 ,0 00 YEARS, ANATOMICALLY MODERN HUMANS BEGAN WALKING IN ...

Selwa, a trusty cargo mule, accompanies Sal- opek across challenging terrain near the ancient ruins of Petra, in south- ern Jord ...

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Syrians pour into Turkey in 2014, part of a wave of people, mostly Kurds, escap- ing ISIS. The nearly four million Syrians in th ...

disseminated, passed along. And so it went for dreary millennia: discovery, loss, reinvention. Call it a long rut. Only when hum ...

AFRICA A SIA Bay of Bengal Arabian Sea R ed (^) S ea Med . (^) Se a Black (^) Se a Ca aassp iia n Se a Gulf of Aden CYPRUS SYRIA ...

Buses carry shoppers to and from the Kumtepa Bazaar in Margilon, Uzbekistan, in 2016. For centuries this was an important stop o ...

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The Syrians displaced from Homs, a city of sev- eral Roman empresses, survived by picking— and eating—tomatoes in Jordan. “There ...

age of Islamic intellectual achievement. Asian innovations like pulp paper, forged steel, and early advanced mathematics rocked ...

landscapes for weeks. As farms go, it was as ordi- nary as Yadav was extraordinary. “We run things here. It is a necessity,” sai ...

bowed to the barn. She went round and bowed to every apple tree ... My grandfather, when we were going away, took his hat off.” ...

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Women pray at an ancient cemetery in Kazakhstan’s Mangystau region. Salopek hiked through this largely empty Central Asian hinte ...

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