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The Royal Road's Forgotten Cousin: Achaemenid River Roads
The Royal Road gets all the press, but Persia's rivers were the empire's true highways. In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna follow the Tigris and Euphrates downstream to Babylon, ride the Karun through Susiana, and explore the Achaemenid system of river stations, ferries, and canal links that moved grain, troops, and royal messengers faster than any overland route. We meet the qanats that fed the irrigation canals, the mysterious 'king's boats' that plied the Persian Gulf, and the engineers who kept the waterways navigable. Along the way, we uncover how Darius the Great's canal…
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