Today, the university’s School of Cultural Heritage hosts the Belt and Road Joint ... with other civilizations. Migration routes might have influenced the genetic makeup of ancient peoples ...
Mr Quilici says it is a worthy contender. "The ancient Appian Way was the queen of the roads. It was a big engineering work, so it deserves, I would say, to be in the World Heritage list.
The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia, Africa ...
Some of these ancient civilizations (among the oldest civilizations ... developing concrete that could be set underwater and building roads so well-engineered that many still exist today.
Of note are the extensive roads, which indicate a well-organised ... of these settlements are thought to rival those of famed ancient civilizations, such as the Maya in Central America.
A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...