The Royal Road was an ancient highway<span>, part of the Silk Road and the Uttara Path </span>built<span> in ancient South Asia and Central Asia, reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) of the </span>first<span>(Achaemenid) Persian </span>Empire<span> in the 5th century BCE. Darius </span>built<span> the road to facilitate rapid communication ..</span>
