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Civil Engineering Department | DCC3113 : Highway & Traffic Engineering

History Early/ Basic roads

The needs of road started from the invention of wheel in Samaria in 3000 BC. Among the early

road inventions in many parts of the world were :

• China Dynasty – ‘China Silk Route’ was the first road built around 2600 BC. The road was

used to transport silk and elephant tusks between China and India

• Parsian Empire – Big trade involving import and export such as silk, porcelain and wood

crafts between China and Europe.

• Britain – ‘Raft Road’ believed was built around 2500 BC

• India – Indus Valley where roads made of bricks with drainage system equipped with pipe

• Mesopotamia and Egypt – Brick road and asphalt road was found in Babylon and

mountainous area of Mesopotamia. In Egypt, the road was built to transport block of rock

to construct pyramid

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