Out of Eden Walk: Walking to the Holy Land

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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.

This story originally aired on March 21, 2024.

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