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The Persian Courier Who Outran an Empire
What does it take to deliver a message across the Persian Empire? In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the forgotten heroes of the Royal Road: the mounted couriers known as pirradazish, or 'fast runners.' Drawing on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets and Herodotus, they trace a single dispatch from Susa to Sardis, unpack the relay system of 111 stathmoi stations, and reveal how the Achaemenid postal network set speed records that stood for centuries. Along the way, they meet the homing pigeon specialists of Mesopotamia, the horse-breeders of Cappadocia, and the scribes who logged every…
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