Central Turkey: Land of the Lost Cities

• Traverse the broad Anatolian Plateau discovering its rich collection of World Heritage sites and incredible ruins.

• Chart the remnants of the earliest civilisations from Neolithic Çatalhöyük to the ancient Hittite capital at Boğazkale

• Enjoy a visit to the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations in Ankara, renowned for its extensive collection of artefacts from the Paleolithic to the Ottoman eras

Tour Director

This tour will be led by Ian Colvin, an experienced tour leader across Armenia, Georgia, Türkiye and the southern Balkans. Ian trained as a historian and Byzantinist at Oxford in the 1990s, specialising in late antiquity and the Roman Eastern Frontier. He moved to the University of Cambridge in the 2000s to become a researcher with the Cambridge School Classics Project. In 2001 Ian established an archaeological excavation at Nokalakevi in Georgia in collaboration with the Georgian National Museum, which continues training students and investigating sites in Western Georgia to this day. Among his current scholarly projects is the Rustaveli Foundation-funded History of Egrisi.

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