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The Royal Road: How Achaemenid Persia Built the World's First Superhighway
Before the Silk Road, before the Roman roads, the Achaemenid Persians built a 2,700-kilometer highway that connected Susa to Sardis — the Royal Road. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how Darius the Great commissioned this marvel of ancient logistics, how relay stations called stathmoi allowed messages to travel from the Aegean to the Persian Gulf in just seven days, and how Herodotus described the road as 'nothing mortal swifter than these messengers.' They discuss the road's construction, its role in unifying the empire's 70 million people, the stations that provided fresh horses and…
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