Overland

Not one road but a shifting web of paths stretching roughly 6,400 kilometers from Chang'an, modern Xian, through the oasis towns o...

The camel, adopted across the Sahara in the first centuries CE, made desert crossing routine. Salt from Taghaza and Bilma moved so...

From the Tang dynasty onward, compressed Pu'er and Ya'an tea traveled by mule caravan from Yunnan and Sichuan across the Hengduan ...

The empire built relay stations every 30 to 40 kilometers where mounted couriers changed horses, carrying official messages at spe...

The Cerro Rico strike of 1545 turned Potosi, in modern Bolivia, into one of the world's largest cities within decades, worked by t...

European felt hats made beaver fur a commodity for three centuries. French traders ran from the St Lawrence through the Great Lake...

Built from 1891 in stages, partly to bind Siberia and move its grain, coal and timber, the line ran initially through Manchuria be...

The Union Pacific built west from Omaha and the Central Pacific built east from Sacramento with Chinese laborers forming the major...

Opened in 1855, the 77 kilometer railway from Colon to Panama City caught the California gold rush, carrying tens of thousands of ...

Opened in 1910 after decades of surveys and construction, the route crossed the Andes through the Cumbre tunnel at about 3,200 met...

When Mexican independence opened New Mexico to foreign trade in 1821, freight wagons began running roughly 1,300 kilometers from F...

The first Chongqing-Duisburg train ran in 2011 across about 11,000 kilometers, with bogie changes at gauge breaks like Alashankou ...

Roughly 30,000 kilometers of connected highway run from Prudhoe Bay toward Ushuaia, interrupted only by the Darien Gap between Pan...

Authorized in 1956 with 90 percent federal funding through the highway trust fund, the system standardized American road freight. ...

Built over two decades from 1959 with heavy engineering losses among Chinese and Pakistani workers, the highway follows Silk Road ...

The corridor bundles Rhine barges, alpine rail tunnels and parallel motorways into one supply chain spine. Its centerpiece is the ...

Also called the middle corridor, the route runs from Kazakhstan's Caspian ports of Aktau and Kuryk by ferry to Baku, then by the B...

The name is a modern scholarly label taken from a Latin phrase in the Vulgate, but the road itself was among the oldest strategic ...

Running along the high ground east of the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea, the route linked Egypt and Arabia with Syria through the...

The name refers to the roughly forty days the journey took through some of the driest desert on earth, from El Fasher in Darfur vi...

The Treaty of Kyakhta of 1727 fixed the border between the Russian and Qing empires and made the twin settlements of Kyakhta and M...

Opened northward behind the silver strikes of Zacatecas and extended by the colonizing expedition of Juan de Onate in 1598, the ro...

After the Civil War, Texas held millions of longhorns worth little locally but far more in northern cities. From 1867, when Joseph...

The Ottoman Empire granted a concession to the Deutsche Bank backed Baghdad Railway Company in 1903 to extend the Anatolian line t...

Russia, Iran and India signed the founding agreement in 2000, and more states joined later. The concept routes cargo from Mumbai b...

An ancient northern route across the Gangetic plain existed in Mauryan times, but Sher Shah Suri rebuilt it in the 1540s with cara...