An innovative study, based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, has re-evaluated what made a road “royal” in the ancient Achaemenid Empire. The research, focused on the route between ...

My traveling career began by chance early one morning in the Assyrian gallery of the British Museum. I was 20 and had come to photograph the mythical creatures that once guarded the gates of Nimrud in ...

There have been some of the most powerful empires and royal families who built vast kingdoms, and advanced trade routes. From ...