the ancient capital of Persia, to Smyrna on the Aegean Sea. The road helped the emperor maintain control of the western portions of the empire, and it was said that royal messengers would stop at ...

Yet, some 1600 structures remain, including royal complexes ... You can’t even see it from the ancient road. The earliest ...

Under the leadership of Cyrus the Great, Persia ruled the world's first true ... along what would become the famous Royal Road, later built by Darius I to link Sardis with key cities across ...

Invented in China around 5,600 years ago, silk was the slipperiest, most mysterious material in the ancient world. Fashioned from the ... Following preexisting paths, including the Persian Royal Road ...

June 15 (Reuters) - Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in ... capital Constantinople and Persia. It also may have served as a conduit ...

The new exhibition, The Glory of Ancient Persia: Treasures from Iran ... that date back over 2,000 years to the opening of the Silk Road, noted Iran's Minister of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts ...

the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two centuries between about 1550 BC and 1292 BC. It's the first royal Egyptian tomb to be ...