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In the 1980s, a group of specialists examined a lump of carbonised papyrus from Herculaneum, damaged by earlier attempts to unroll it, and declared it unreadable. Not difficult. Not awaiting better methods. Unreadable. The judgement of the best people in the field, working with the best tools available, was that whatever had been written on this object was gone forever and no one would ever recover it. In June of 2026 the entire scroll was read. Twenty columns of Greek. Nobod

We should declare an interest before we begin. We are a travel company. We take people to see rare animals, and we charge them for it. Everything that follows is written by an organisation with an obvious financial stake in the answer being yes. So treat what we say accordingly, and hold us to a higher standard than you would hold a disinterested party. Because the honest answer to this question is not yes. It is not no either. It is that wildlife tourism can save endangered

Ask anyone where prehistoric art survives and they will say Lascaux. Perhaps Altamira. Perhaps Chauvet. Caves in France and Spain, bulls on a wall, painted by people in a glacial world. Almost nobody says Tassili n'Ajjer. Yet on a plateau in the deep Algerian Sahara there are somewhere in the order of fifteen thousand paintings and engravings, spread across a landscape the size of a small country, accumulated over a span of time so long that you can watch a climate collapse a