Transportation via roads started with the development of tracks by humans with their trade routes and migratory travel. Around the world, roads have developed, bringing people (and their animals) from place to place. As they have evolved, roads continue to cross open fields and deserts, cut through forests and bogs, and traverse mountain ranges. What are the oldest roads near you? Who has shaped them, and how have they changed over time?
The Appian Way (Latin- Via Appia), the first and most famous of the ancient Roman roads.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Appian-Way
El Camino Real - Traversing New Spain in Modern-day America’s West
https://www.nps.gov/elca/learn/historyculture/index.htm
https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/el_camino_real.php
Japan’s Nakasendo Highway
https://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-city-guides/nakasendo-highway
https://www.audleytravel.com/us/japan/things-to-do/walking-the-nakasendo-highway
The History of Road Transport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_road_transport
The Appalachian Trail
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tales-from-the-appalachian-trail-34902244/
https://appalachiantrail.org/explore/
The Trans-African Highway
Tizi n'Tichka, “the difficult mountain pass”
https://www.dangerousroads.org/africa/morocco/2738-tizi-ntichka.html
Time Traveling in Marrakech
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/marrakech-fascinating-history
Regional Native American Trails
https://guides.loc.gov/native-american-spaces/published-sources/trails
Six New England Indian Trails That Turned Into Scenic Highways
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/six-indian-trails-turned-scenic-highways-byways/
Native American infrastructure that helped make Chicago a successful city
The Silk Road
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/about-silk-roads
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Silk-Road-trade-route
El Camino de Santiago
https://americanpilgrims.org/history-of-the-camino/
https://caminoways.com/camino-de-santiago
The World’s Oldest Roads
The Lincoln Highway: The first transcontinental road for automobiles in the United States.
https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/
U.S. Highway 66 -- popularly known as Route 66 or the Mother Road -- holds a special place in American consciousness
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/travelroute66/index.htm
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-historybeyond/
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/route-66/
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