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Exceptional Universal Value of the Road Systems in Ancient Empires: A Comparative Study of the Silk Road and the Qhapaq Ñan

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

The Silk Road was the world’s first international highway of commerce. Its significance as a historical and cultural landscape is defined by more than one millennium of constant exchanges among a number of diverse cultures, religions, and political entities. With the exception of the short-lived Mongol rule in the thirteenth century, the Silk Road was never controlled by one empire alone. [...]


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