Visitors to Abu Dhabi can ride in a modern abra, or wooden boat, using Capt. Tony’s (Abu Dhabi, UAE; phone +971 02 650 7175, http://captaintonys.ae) “Water Hopping Service.”

Passengers are picked up at the Souk Qaryat Al Beri marina and the Ritz-Carlton and Fairmont hotels in the Khor Al Maqta’a district and travel 25 minutes to the Eastern Mangroves.

A ticket costs AED50 (near $14) one way and AED80 round trip. On Fridays and Saturdays only, boats pick up passengers from 10 a....

An exhibit of Byzantine-era gold and silver coins and medallions — discovered 50 meters south of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem in April 2013 during the excavation of a sixth-century-AD building — is being held until Jan. 30, 2016, at the Israel Museum (11 Ruppin Blvd., Hakirya, Jerusalem, Israel; phone +972 2 670 8811, www.english.imjnet.org.il).

ILS54 (near $13.50) adult or ILS27 senior or child (under 17).

More than 150 objects held at London’s British Museum since being collected in Australia, many from the times of earliest contact between indigenous peoples (Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders) and nonindigenous people (British), will return to Australia for the exhibit “Encounters,” Nov. 1, 2015-March 28, 2016.

Among the objects are a wooden shield believed to have been taken by James Cook in 1770, a mid-1840s Tasmanian shell necklace and an 1870s dilly bag. 

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