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Silhouette of Indian man and camel during sunrise at Thar desert in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. Nokuro - Shutterstock

Ibn Battuta, the pilgrim who traveled the world

StoriesMarch 17, 2026

The story of Ibn Battuta, the pilgrim who left Morocco for Mecca and went on to travel over 120,000 km across the medieval Islamic world

Funerary portrait from Fayum (Egypt) traditionally attributed to Egeria Public Domain

Egeria, the first pilgrim of Europe

StoriesMarch 10, 2026

Egeria, a 4th-century traveler from Hispania, crossed the Roman Empire to Jerusalem and Sinai, leaving the earliest surviving diary of Christian pilgrimage