Sun gods and scarab carvings bake under an Egyptian sun. Beaches on the Red Sea welcome you to Sharm. The other side of Suez, unfamiliar Ugarit tales will entertain in Syria before lovely pine-clad slopes and hidden coves on the Turquoise Coast lead to Istanbul. We'll call on Yalta where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin sketched the map of post-war Europe, while Sevastopol siege stories and tales of the Light Brigade also come under our spotlight.