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 ...

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.