Paul Salopek

Structures built by the Nabateans more than two millennia ago, like this remnant at Mada’in Salih, Saudi Arabia, rival those of ancient Rome and Greece.

Out of Eden Walk: Walking to the Holy Land

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been recreating the journey, on foot, of the first humans. He tells host Marco Werman about his walk, in 2013, through Jordan into the Israeli occupied West Bank, lands that are both ancient and now part of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Out of Eden Walk: Walking to the Holy Land
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Out of Eden Walk: Paul Salopek traverses the Arabian Peninsula via Saudi Arabia

Out of Eden Walk: Paul Salopek traverses the Arabian Peninsula via Saudi Arabia
Selfie of a man with a camel int he background

Out of Eden Walk: Djibouti and the Red Sea

Out of Eden Walk: Djibouti and the Red Sea
A back shot of a man wearing a bookbag and hat looking into a grass pathway

Out of Eden Walk: The first steps

Out of Eden Walk: The first steps
Seydo, a Kurdish nomad, with his flock in southeastern Turkey

A journalist on a seven-year trek and a shepherd say goodbye to 12,000 years of human history

A journalist on a seven-year trek and a shepherd say goodbye to 12,000 years of human history