China Discovers 2,200-Year-Old Imperial Road, the Ancestor of Today’s 4-lane Highways
Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a remarkably preserved section of an ancient imperial highway built more than 2,200 years ago—an infrastructure marvel now being hailed as the ancestor of modern expressways. The discovery sheds new light on the extraordinary engineering capabilities of the Qin Dynasty, the empire that unified China for the first time in history….