The Persian Royal Road // Iran, Iraq, Syria, Türkiye Darius the Great ordered the Persian Royal Road’s construction in the 5th century BCE to ease communication in the western part of the ...

Within days I had signed on as the crew for a documentary about Victor's latest expeditionary adventure: an attempt to chart the course of the Persian Royal Road, the fifth-century B.C. imperial ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - If Persian walnut trees could talk, they might tell of the numerous traders who moved along the Silk Roads' thousands of miles over thousands of years, carrying among their ...

For the people protesting against it, a new dam near these sun-drenched ruins may be more than an environmental upheaval: in it they scent an affront to the country's pre-Islamic identity.