Beginning as early as 600 B.C., the ancient Greeks created an ambitious road partially paved with stone, that spanned across the entire Isthmus of Corinth to haul boats or cargo from one port to the other, to avoid a 220 mile voyage over water
The Diolkos varied from 15 to 20 feet wide and was paved with poros limestone. Some stone blocks were taken from abandoned monuments and archaic Greek letters were still visible.…