Just building a place as an "international business district" doesn't mean it will become one. Park Yeon Soo conceived this city of the future back in 1986.
It was far from the centres of action in Egypt and Mesopotamia, where people were building the world's first cities, writing down its first epics, and waging its first organised wars.
Called "the Wattway," the roads will be built through joint efforts with the French road-building company Colas and the National Institute of Solar Energy.
In ancient Roman times, the Italian peninsula had great forest of fir preferred for warships, but scarcity was apparent as early as the early fourteenth century.
As the Roman Empire grew, the Romans needed to take control of the seas and for this they needed to build harbours capable of holding a fleet of ships.
The music from his lyre was so wonderful that stones marched into their own places in rhythmic time when he helped Poseidon build up the walls of Troy.