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 ...