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The Royal Road: Persia's Highway of Power
In this episode of The Achaemenid Empire: Persia's Golden Age of Power, Lucas and Luna journey along the Royal Road, the 2,700-kilometer highway that connected Sardis to Susa and held the vast Achaemenid Empire together. They explore how Darius the Great built on earlier Assyrian and Lydian routes to create a postal system that could carry a message from the Aegean to the Persian heartland in just seven days — a feat unmatched until the Pony Express. Along the way, they discuss the road's 111 staging posts, the legendary 'King's Eyes and Ears' inspectors, the fortified stations that protected…
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